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.

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.

Tuesday 02.07.12

Learning to Read the Web
Speaker: Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University)
Host: Thorsten Joachims

Thursday 10.18.12

Extending the Cloud to the Network Edge
Speaker: Larry Peterson (Princeton)
Host: Joe Halpern

Thursday 10.25.12

Low-Pass Semantics
Speaker: Fernando Pereira (Google)
Host: Lillian Lee

 

All lectures are presented in B17 Upson Hall, Cornell University.

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