Gerard Salton

Gerard Salton
Born
Gerhard Anton Sahlmann

(1927-03-08)March 8, 1927
Nuremberg, Germany
DiedAugust 28, 1995(1995-08-28) (aged 68)
Ithaca, New York, US
EducationBrooklyn College
Harvard University
Known forthe father of Information Retrieval[2]
Gerard Salton Award
Scientific career
Fieldsinformation retrieval
InstitutionsCornell University
ThesisAn automatic data processing system for public utility revenue accounting (1958)
Doctoral advisorHoward Aiken
Doctoral students

Gerard A. "Gerry" Salton (8 March 1927 – 28 August 1995) was a professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. Salton was perhaps the leading computer scientist working in the field of information retrieval during his time, and "the father of Information Retrieval".[2] His group at Cornell developed the SMART Information Retrieval System, which he initiated when he was at Harvard. It was the very first system to use the now popular vector space model for information retrieval.

  1. ^ Alla, James. Automatic Hypertext Construction. Cornell University. Retrieved 3 December 2023.
  2. ^ a b "The father of Information Retrieval" (PDF). cs.cornell.edu. Retrieved 10 March 2015. a founding member of the department and the father of Information Retrieval.