Gerard Salton
Gerard Salton · Technology & Engineering
Computer & information scientist
1927, Nuremberg, Germany — 1995, Ithaca, New York, United States
Germany · United States
Gerard Salton is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Computer & information scientist
Gerard Salton, born Gerhard Anton Sahlmann in Nuremberg, was a computer scientist widely called the father of information retrieval. At Harvard and then Cornell he developed the SMART system, introducing the vector space model, tf–idf weighting and other methods that still underlie modern search engines. Having fled Nazi Germany, he was Jewish; he co-founded Cornell's computer science department.
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Computer & information scientist
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