Gerard Salton

American computer scientist

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In the 1960s Gerard Salton of Cornell University—now called “the father of information retrieval” and other similar titles—effectively took up Bush’s challenge. Leading teams of computer scientists at Harvard University and Cornell, Salton created the “System for the Mechanical Analysis and Retrieval of Text” (SMART). The breakthrough observation…
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