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.

Salton

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.

Thursday 10.29.15

Salton Speaker: Lydia Kavraki, Rice University
Host: Ross Knepper

Thursday 12.03.15

Salton Speaker: Mike Stonebraker, CSAIL MIT
Host: Ken Birman

All lectures are presented in G01 Gates Hall, Cornell University.

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