Anthony Cawkell
Anthony Cawkell(1920-2003) was a British electronics engineer and information scientist.
Anthony Edmund Cawkell was born on August 23, 1920 in Henham, England. (1920-2003) was a British electronics engineer and information scientist.
Career
Cawkell served in the Royal Navy during Wrld War II. He then founded Cawkell Research and Electronics Ltd, which specialized in scientific instruments.
He became an associate of Eugene Garfield and worked for the Institute for Scientific Information (IIS) as "IIS’s Man in London." For ISI he served as Consultant (late 1960s-1971), Branch Director (1971-1973), Director of Research (1973-1978), and Vice President of Research (1979-1980).
Cawkell left ISI in 1980 to become Director of CITECH, Limited, but continued to serve ISI as a consultant for a number of years.
Contributions
- At ISI, Cawkell played a key role in the development of a number of ISI projects, including Copywriter, SciTel, PRIMATE, and Sci-Mate.
- Longtime member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Information Science.
- Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists.
- Fellow Institution Electrical Engineers, and Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Publications
Author of over 150 papers, reviews and book chapters. A list is in the dblp Computer Science Bibliography [1]
Further reading
- Garfield, Eugene. "Neither rain nor snow deters ISI’s pony express man in London." Current Contents/Life Sciences 14(12) (24 March 1971) M1. [Reprinted in Essays of an Information Scientist, Vol. 1 ( ISI Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1977), pp. 154–155.
- Garfield, Eugene. "A E Cawkell, information detective–and ISI’s man in UK", Current Contents/Life Sciences 14 (40) (6 October 1971) 5. [Reprinted in Essays of an Information Scientist, Vol. 1 (ISI Press, Philadelphia, PA, 1977), pp. 242–244.] Available at: www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/V1p242y1962-73.pdf
- Garfield, Eugene. "A memorial tribute to Anthony E. Cawkell, 1920–2003." Journal of Information Science 29, no 6 (2003): 473–474. [2]
Papers
A series of Cawkell's papers is in Eugene Garfields's papers at the Science History Institute, mainly documenting Cawkell's activities as an ISI employee and, to a lesser extent, his consultant work for ISI as director of CITECH. Mostly correspondence and research and development reports, but also a significant amount of periodical articles, journal articles, reports, and other materials. [3]