Mortimer Taube

Mortimer Taube ( born December 6, 1910 in Jersey City, New Jersey; † September 3, 1965 in Annapolis, Maryland) was an American librarian, documentaries and pioneer of information retrieval.

Life

Taube studied at the University of Chicago in 1933, where he made his BA in philosophy and in 1935 the Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1936, he made ​​just there a degree as a librarian. 1947-1949 he led the Science and Technology Project at the Library of Congress, from 1952 to 1953 he was editor of the journal American Documentation.

Services

In 1952 he founded the firm Documentation, Inc., the new methods of documentation developed to master to the exploding flood of information. In addition, he is considered the founder of the method of Coordinate Indexing.

Works

• Computers and Common Sense, the Myth of Thinking Machines. 1961; German: The Myth of the thinking machine. Critical Reflections on Cybernetics. Reinbek. Rowohlt, 1966 Rowohlts German Encyclopedia # 245
• Information Storage and Retrieval: Theory, Systems, and Devices. In 1958.