James Louis Dolby

James Louis Dolby (1926-1985) was a US mathematician and computer scientist.

Life

James Louis Dolby was born April 29, 1926. He became Manager, English Lab, GE 1951-60; Consulting engineer, Lockheed 1960-64; Consultant, Corp. Economic & Industrial Research 1964-65; Partner, R&D Consults Co. 1965-77; and, at San Jose State University, Associate Professor of Mathematics, 1966-74; then Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, 1974-1985. He died November 12, 1985.

Contributions

Dolby worked on index merging algorithms, data analysis, pattern recognition, and linguistic computation.

Publications

Several publications are listed by Google Scholar. [1]

• "Quick Method for Choosing a Transformation." Technometrics 5, no. 3 (1963): 317-325.
• "A Tape Dictionary for Linguistic Experiments," With H. L. & MacMurray, Proceedings of the Fall Joint Computer Conference 1963 , pp. 419-423.
• "On the Structure of Written English Words." With H. L. Resnikoff. Language 40, no 2 (Apr.-Jun., 1964): 167-196. [2]
• "An algorithm for variable-length proper-name compression." Journal of Library Automation 3, no. 4 (1970): 257-275. [3]
• "Programming languages in mechanized documentation." Journal of Documentation 27, no. 2 (1971): 136-155.
• The cost of maintaining and updating library card catalogs. With V.J. Forsyth & H. L. Resnikoff. Los Altos, CA: R & D Press, 1975.
• "Information Density Phenomena and Random Packing." With H. Solomon. Journal of Applied Probability Vol. 12, No. 2 (Jun., 1975), pp. 364-370.
• "A theory of data: Implications for information retrieval," In: 1984 IEEE First International Conference on Data Engineering. Los Angeles, CA, USA, 1984, pp. 111-117, doi: 10.1109/ICDE.1984.7271262.