Some IR History
- Roots in the scientific “Information Explosion” following WWII
- Interest in computer-based IR from mid 1950’s
- H.P. Luhn at IBM (1958)
- Probabilistic models at Rand (Maron & Kuhns) (1960)
- Boolean system development at Lockheed (‘60s)
- Vector Space Model (Salton at Cornell 1965)
- Statistical Weighting methods and theoretical advances (‘70s)
- Refinements and Advances in application (‘80s)
- User Interfaces, Large-scale testing and application (‘90s)