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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 brought to you with the support of Amit Singhal,
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photo by Edgar Rosenberg
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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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