Mooers, Calvin Northrup (1919-1994)

American physicist, computer scientist and information scientist. He coined the terms information retrieval and descriptor.

Literature:

American Men & Women of Science. A biographical directory of today's leaders in physical, biological and related sciences. 18th edition, 1992-1993. Eight volumes. New Providence, NJ: R.R. Bowker, 1992.

ASIS&T Pioneers: http://web.archive.org/web/20021218172440/http://www.asis.org/Features/Pioneers/mooers.htm

Mooers, C. N. (1949). Application of random codes to the gathering of statistical information. Boston, Zator Co. (Punched card systems).
 

Mooers, C. N. (1950). The theory of digital handling of non-numerical information and its implications to machine economics. Boston, Zator Co.
 

Mooers, C. N. (1951). Making information retrieval pay. Boston, Zator Co. 
 

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.(2005). Calvin Mooers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Mooers

http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/inv/cbi00081.html

See also: Mooers' law.

Generic group: Information science, biography

Birger Hjørland

Last edited: 28-10-2006

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