TY  - JOUR
AB  - Sir, We write to record our debt, and that of our colleagues, to one of the founding fathers of information retrieval, Gerard (Gerry) Salton, who died on 28th August 1995 in Ithaca, ny at the age of 68. Information retrieval was established as a new academic discipline by a small number of pioneers, Gerry among them, who recognised the need for, and the research challenges presented by, the automated indexing, storage and retrieval of text documents. He brought academic rigour and scholarship to establishing the foundations of this discipline, and we acknowledge his influential contributions to the theory, experimental methods, and practice of information retrieval.
VL  - 52
IS  - 1
SN  - 0022-0418
DO  - 10.1108/eb026959
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb026959
AU  - AGOSTI MARISTELLA
AU  - BEAULIEU MICHELINE
AU  - CLEVERDON CYRIL
AU  - FREI HANS‐PETER
AU  - FUHR NORBERT
AU  - HARPER DAVID
AU  - INGWERSEN PETER
AU  - KEEN MICHAEL
AU  - KUHLEN RAINER
AU  - ROBERTSON STEPHEN
AU  - SMEATON ALAN
AU  - SPARCK JONES KAREN
AU  - VAN RUSBERGEN KEITH
AU  - WILLETT PETER
PY  - 1996
Y1  - 1996/01/01
TI  - GERARD (GERRY) SALTON
T2  - Journal of Documentation
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 1
EP  - 2
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -