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Mortimer Taube (born December 6, 1910 in Jersey City , New Jersey , † September 3, 1965 in Annapolis , Maryland) was an American librarian , documentary and pioneer of information retrieval .
Life
Taube studied at the University of Chicago , where he received his BA in philosophy in 1933 and his Ph.D. in 1935. at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1936 he graduated as a librarian there. From 1947 to 1949 he led the Science and Technology Project at the Library of Congress , from 1952 to 1953 he was editor of the American Documentation magazine .
In 1952 he founded Documentation, Inc., which developed new methods of documentation to cope with the exploding flood of information. He is also considered to be the founder of the coordinate indexing method .
Works
- Computers and Common Sense, the Myth of Thinking Machines. 1961; German: The myth of the thinking machine. Critical considerations on cybernetics . Reinbek: Rowohlt, 1966. Rowohlt's German Encyclopedia No. 245
- Information Storage and Retrieval: Theory, Systems, and Devices. 1958.
Web links
- Short biography at the School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dove, Mortimer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American librarian, documentary writer, and information retrieval pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jersey City , New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 3, 1965 |
| Place of death | Annapolis , Maryland |