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The Gerard Salton Lecture Series This lecture series honors our former colleague with speakers who similarly are innovators in their fields. It is presented in B17 Upson Hall, Cornell University. | |
photo by Edgar Rosenberg | Gerard Salton (1927- 1995)
A towering figure in the field of information retrieval, Gerard Salton synthesized ideas from mathematics, statistics, and natural language processing to create a scientific basis for extracting semantics from word frequency. The impact of his contribution is profound - five textbooks, over 150 research papers, and dozens of Ph.D. students. The modern information science research scene, with its terabyte databases, Web, and related technologies, owes a great deal to Gerry's pioneering efforts. | |
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