Gerard Salton
Gerard Salton ( born March 8, 1927 in Nuremberg, † August 28, 1995 ) was a professor of computer science at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. His research and its use in professional associations and organizations had significant influence on the development of information retrieval as an independent field of research.
Biography
Salton was born on 8 March 1927 in Nuremberg as Gerhard Anton Sahlmann, son of Rudolf and Elisabeth Sahlmann, in a German - Jewish merchant family. From Nazi Germany in 1938 his family fled, first to Belgium, then to France and finally to Switzerland. Gerard Salton 1947 immigrated to the United States, where he was naturalized in 1952. In 1950 he married Mary Birnbaum. From this marriage two children were born.
Gerard Salton completed a bachelor's (up to 1950) and Master studies (until 1952) of mathematics at Brooklyn College. In 1958 he received his doctorate at Harvard University under Howard Aiken. He taught at Harvard until 1965, first as a lecturer ( 1958-1960 ), then as assistant professor ( 1960-1965 ). In 1965 he was appointed as one of the founding members of the Institute of computer science as a professor of computer science at Cornell University. Gerard Salton has held visiting professorships at the University of Grenoble, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and the University of Konstanz.
Research
Even during the time at Harvard ever began the development of the SMART system ( system for the manipulation and retrieval of text ), one of the most influential experimental information retrieval systems. This system, which was developed and refined over 30 years of academic research across under the aegis Gerard Salton, was the basis for the definition and experimental verification of the vector space model (see Dubin 2004) of information retrieval. Other issues of information retrieval, to where the research to the SMART system made important contributions, are the frequency-based term weighting, the relevance feedback, the retrieval passages as well as the automatic generation of hypertext links.
Work in professional associations
Gerard Salton to promote his field of research by participating in research organizations and associations and hedge understand. Among the features that it has carried out, the following highlighted:
- Board member of the ACM
- Speaker of the SIGIR, the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval ACM.
Awards and honors
Gerard Salton Award from the ACM SIGIR
Memorising the benefits Gerard Salton for the research field of information retrieval assigns the specialist group on Information Retrieval ( Special Interest Group Information Retrieval - SIGIR ) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM ) every three years, the Gerard Salton Award, which is the highest scientific award in the field of information retrieval applies. Last price 2012 Duisburg computer Norbert Fuhr received. Gerard Salton in 1983 was the first prize winner himself, the award was renamed after his death in his honor.
Publications and Editorial Boards
Gerard Salton has published more than 100 scientific articles and books:
- List of Publications by Gerard Salton in the DBLP Bibliography
- List of Publications by Gerard Salton in the ACM Digital Library with full-text access
- Salton's writings in Citeseer: Documents Citations
Great effect achieved Salton textbooks on information retrieval
- Salton, Gerard: Automatic Information Organization and Retrieval, New York, McGraw -Hill, 1968.
- Salton, Gerard; McGill, Michael J.: Introduction to modern information retrieval, New York, McGraw -Hill, 1983.
- Salton, Garard: Automatic Text Processing: The Transformation, Analysis, and Retrieval of Information by Computer. Reading, Mass.. , Addison - Wesley Publishing, 1989.
Gerard Salton was the main and co-editor of the following journals
- " Communications of the ACM "
- "Journal of the ACM "
- " ACM Transactions on Database Systems"
- " ACM Transactions on Information Systems"