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, PhD '97.

photo by Edgar Rosenberg

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.

September 22, 2005 Shafi Goldwasser Massachusetts Institute of Technology On the Impossibility of Obfuscation with Auxiliary Input

October 27, 2005 Susan Dumais Microsoft Personal Information Management: Helping Finders Become Keepers

February 2, 2006 Raghu Ramakrishnan University of Wisconsin Discovering Interesting Subsets of Data in Cube Space