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	== Life ==		== Life ==
	Kessler was born in Odessa, Ukraine. He earned B.S. (1939) and M.S. (1940) degrees in biophysics from MIT and a Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University (1948). He worked for the former ~~'''~~[[National Bureau of Standards]]~~'''~~ in Washington, D.C., taught physics at Brandeis University, and worked on developing radar and military guidance systems at ~~'''~~[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology\|MIT]]~~'''<nowiki/>~~'s Radiation Laboratory and Lincoln Laboratory. He worked at MIT from 1954 to 1976~~. He~~ died on August 13, 1997.		'''Myer Mike Kessler''' was born in Odessa, Ukraine. He earned B.S. (1939) and M.S. (1940) degrees in biophysics from MIT and a Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University (1948). He worked for the former [[National Bureau of Standards]] in Washington, D.C., taught physics at Brandeis University, and worked on developing radar and military guidance systems at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology\|MIT]]'s Radiation Laboratory and Lincoln Laboratory. He worked at MIT from 1954 to 1976 and died on August 13, 1997.

	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
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	=== Technical Information Project ===		=== Technical Information Project ===
	In 1962 Kessler was named director of MIT's Technical Information Project (TIP), in which he devised a system for retrieving articles and documents by searching for a word or words in a text rather than by looking for titles, authors, key words or subject classifications. He first demonstrated the technology with an IBM 7094 mainframe computer in 1964. This early influential online search system credited with several milestones in the development of the field (Bourne & Hahn 2003).		In 1962 Kessler was named director of MIT's Technical Information Project (TIP), in which he devised a system for retrieving articles and documents by searching for a word or words in a text rather than by looking for titles, authors, key words or subject classifications. He first demonstrated the technology with an IBM 7094 mainframe computer in 1964. This early influential online search system has been credited with several milestones in the development of the field (Bourne & Hahn 2003).

	=== Bibliographic coupling ===		=== Bibliographic coupling ===
	Kessler is credited with inventing bibliographic coupling.		Kessler is credited with inventing bibliographic coupling. Two documents are bibliographically coupled if they both cite some other document. "Coupling strength" is higher if two or more documents are cited by both. Similarly, two authors are bibliographically coupled to the extent that the reference lists of their respective oeuvres contain references to the same one or more documents. Bibliographic coupling is useful for finding related research. Bibliographic coupling is similar to co-citation, which is when two documents are both "co-cited" if they are cited by one or more other documents.

	Two documents are bibliographically coupled if they both cite ~~the same one~~ document. "Coupling strength" is higher if more ~~than one document~~ are cited by both. Similarly, two authors are bibliographically coupled to the extent that the reference lists of their respective oeuvres contain references to the same one or more documents. Bibliographic coupling is useful for finding related research. Bibliographic coupling is similar to co-citation, which is when two documents are both "co-cited" if they are cited by one or more other documents.

	== Publications ==		== Publications ==
			*"Technical information flow patterns." In ''Papers presented at the May 9-11, 1961, western joint IRE-AIEE-ACM computer conference'', pp. 247-257. 1961.
	*"Bibliographic coupling between scientific papers," ''American Documentation'' 24 (1963), pp. 123-131.		*"Bibliographic coupling between scientific papers," ''American Documentation'' 24 (1963), pp. 123-131.
			*"Bibliographic coupling extended in time: Ten case histories." ''Information storage and retrieval'' 1, no. 4 (1963): 169-187.
			*"Comparison of the results of bibliographic coupling and analytic subject indexing." ''American documentation'' 16, no. 3 (1965): 223-233.
			*"The MIT technical information project." ''Physics Today'' 18, no. 3 (1965): 28-36.
			*"Some statistical properties of citations in the literature of physics." ''Statistical Association Methods in Mechanized Documentation'' (1965): 193-198. [https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/MP/nbsmiscellaneouspub269.pdf#page=203]

	== Further reading ==		== Further reading ==
	*[Brief obituary] ''MIT News'', August 27, 1997 [https://news.mit.edu/1997/obituaries2-0827]		*[Brief obituary] ''MIT News'', August 27, 1997 [https://news.mit.edu/1997/obituaries2-0827]
	*Bourne, Charles P. & Trudi B.Hahn. A history of online information services, 1963-1976. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.		*Bourne, Charles P. & Trudi B.Hahn. ''A history of online information services, 1963-1976''. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.

	== Papers ==		== Papers ==
	MIT Libraries Department of Distinctive Collections (Cambridge, MA), 1946-1994. 2 cubic feet (2 record cartons). Includes: Myer M. Kessler papers: correspondence, reports, reprints, proposals, papers, and conference materials, including documents from sessions 1-10 of the International Conference on Information Science. Also included in the collection are files from the Technical Information Project (TIP) including user manuals, progress reports, and programs. Finding aid: [https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/1008].		MIT Libraries Department of Distinctive Collections (Cambridge, MA), 1946-1994. 2 cubic feet (2 record cartons). Includes: Myer M. Kessler papers: correspondence, reports, reprints, proposals, papers, and conference materials, including documents from sessions 1-10 of the International Conference on Information Science. Also included in the collection are files from the Technical Information Project (TIP) including user manuals, progress reports, and programs. Finding aid: [https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/1008].

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	[[File:Myer M. Kessler.png\|alt=Photo of Myer M. Kessler holding booklet with coworkers\|right\|frameless\|450x450px\|Myer M. Kessler (holding booklet) Credit: MIT Museum]]		'''Myer Mike Kessler''' (1917-1997) was a US pioneer of information science.
	~~Myer Mike Kessler (1917-1997) was a pioneer of information science.~~		[[File:Myer M. Kessler.png\|alt=Photo of Myer M. Kessler holding booklet with coworkers\|right\|frameless\|450x450px\|Myer M. Kessler (holding booklet) Credit: MIT Museum]]

	== Life ==		== Life ==
	Kessler was born in Odessa, Ukraine. He earned B.S. (1939) and M.S. (1940) degrees in biophysics from MIT and a Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University (1948). He worked for the former '''[[National Bureau of Standards]]''' in Washington, D.C., taught physics at Brandeis University, and worked on developing radar and military guidance systems at '''[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology\|MIT]]'''<nowiki/>'s Radiation Laboratory and Lincoln Laboratory. He worked at MIT from 1954 to 1976.		Kessler was born in Odessa, Ukraine. He earned B.S. (1939) and M.S. (1940) degrees in biophysics from MIT and a Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University (1948). He worked for the former '''[[National Bureau of Standards]]''' in Washington, D.C., taught physics at Brandeis University, and worked on developing radar and military guidance systems at '''[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology\|MIT]]'''<nowiki/>'s Radiation Laboratory and Lincoln Laboratory. He worked at MIT from 1954 to 1976. He died on August 13, 1997.

	~~A brief obituary~~ is ~~available at https://news.mit~~.~~edu/1997/obituaries2-0827~~		== Contributions ==
			Kessler was interested in citation analysis, application of ideas management, and instruction and technology in the administration of academic libraries.

			Kessler also conducted studies with American Institute of Physics on citation analysis for laser literature.

			=== Technical Information Project ===
			In 1962 Kessler was named director of MIT's Technical Information Project (TIP), in which he devised a system for retrieving articles and documents by searching for a word or words in a text rather than by looking for titles, authors, key words or subject classifications. He first demonstrated the technology with an IBM 7094 mainframe computer in 1964. This early influential online search system credited with several milestones in the development of the field (Bourne & Hahn 2003).

			=== Bibliographic coupling ===
			Kessler is credited with inventing bibliographic coupling.

	~~== Contributions ==~~		Two documents are bibliographically coupled if they both cite the same one document. "Coupling strength" is higher if more than one document are cited by both. Similarly, two authors are bibliographically coupled to the extent that the reference lists of their respective oeuvres contain references to the same one or more documents. Bibliographic coupling is useful for finding related research. Bibliographic coupling is similar to co-citation, which is when two documents are both "co-cited" if they are cited by one or more other documents.
	~~Kessler invented bibliographic coupling~~. ~~He was interested in citation analysis, application of ideas management, and instruction and technology in the administration of academic libraries~~. ~~He worked on the MIT Technical Information Project (TIP)~~, ~~an early influential online search system. Bourne and Hahn's book on~~ the ~~history of online information searching credits TIP with several milestones in~~ the ~~development~~ of the ~~field (C~~. P. ~~Bourne & T. B. Hahn, A History of Online Information Services~~, ~~1963~~-~~1976, pp. 42+). Kessler also conducted studies with AIP on citation analysis for laser literature~~.

	== ~~Awards~~ ==		== Publications ==
			*"Bibliographic coupling between scientific papers," ''American Documentation'' 24 (1963), pp. 123-131.

	== ~~Offices~~ ==		== Further reading ==
			*[Brief obituary] ''MIT News'', August 27, 1997 [https://news.mit.edu/1997/obituaries2-0827]
			*Bourne, Charles P. & Trudi B.Hahn. A history of online information services, 1963-1976. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.

	== Papers ==		== Papers ==
	~~'''Location #1'''~~ MIT Libraries Department of Distinctive Collections (Cambridge, MA)		MIT Libraries Department of Distinctive Collections (Cambridge, MA), 1946-1994. 2 cubic feet (2 record cartons). Includes: Myer M. Kessler papers: correspondence, reports, reprints, proposals, papers, and conference materials, including documents from sessions 1-10 of the International Conference on Information Science. Also included in the collection are files from the Technical Information Project (TIP) including user manuals, progress reports, and programs. Finding aid: [https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/1008].

	* '''Papers dates:''' 1946-1994
	* '''Size:''' 2 cubic feet (2 record cartons)
	* '''Includes:~~'''~~ Myer M. Kessler papers: correspondence, reports, reprints, proposals, papers, and conference materials, including documents from sessions 1-10 of the International Conference on Information Science. Also included in the collection are files from the Technical Information Project (TIP) including user manuals, progress reports, and programs
	* '''Finding aid:~~'''~~ https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/1008
	* '''Source:''' https://archivesspace.mit.~~edu/repositories/2/resources/1008~~
	~~Photo Credit: MIT Museum~~

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			[[File:Myer M. Kessler.png\|alt=Photo of Myer M. Kessler holding booklet with coworkers\|right\|frameless\|450x450px\|Myer M. Kessler (holding booklet) Credit: MIT Museum]]
			Myer Mike Kessler (1917-1997) was a pioneer of information science.

	== Life ==		== Life ==
	~~1918~~-~~1997~~		Kessler was born in Odessa, Ukraine. He earned B.S. (1939) and M.S. (1940) degrees in biophysics from MIT and a Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University (1948). He worked for the former '''[[National Bureau of Standards]]''' in Washington, D.C., taught physics at Brandeis University, and worked on developing radar and military guidance systems at '''[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology\|MIT]]'''<nowiki/>'s Radiation Laboratory and Lincoln Laboratory. He worked at MIT from 1954 to 1976.

			A brief obituary is available at https://news.mit.edu/1997/obituaries2-0827

	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
	Kessler invented bibliographic coupling. He was interested in citation analysis, application of ideas management, and instruction and technology in the administration of academic libraries. He worked on the MIT Technical Information Project (TIP), an early influential online search system. Bourne and Hahn's book on the history of online information searching credits TIP with several milestones in the development of the field. (C.P. Bourne & T.B. Hahn, A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976, pp. 42+) He conducted studies with AIP on citation analysis for laser literature~~. .~~		Kessler invented bibliographic coupling. He was interested in citation analysis, application of ideas management, and instruction and technology in the administration of academic libraries. He worked on the MIT Technical Information Project (TIP), an early influential online search system. Bourne and Hahn's book on the history of online information searching credits TIP with several milestones in the development of the field (C. P. Bourne & T. B. Hahn, A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976, pp. 42+). Kessler also conducted studies with AIP on citation analysis for laser literature.

	Kessler was born in Odessa, Ukraine (then Russia) and earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biochemistry at MIT and a Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University, 1948. He worked for the former National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., taught physics at Brandeis University and worked on developing radar and military guidance systems at MIT's Radiation Laboratory and Lincoln Laboratory.

	== Awards ==		== Awards ==
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	== Papers ==		== Papers ==
	'''Location #1''' MIT ~~Library~~, ~~Archives Division.~~		'''Location #1''' MIT Libraries Department of Distinctive Collections (Cambridge, MA)

	* '''Papers dates:''' ~~1960~~-~~1970~~		* '''Papers dates:''' 1946-1994
	* '''Size:''' ~~1,000 pp.~~ (~~approx.~~)		* '''Size:''' 2 cubic feet (2 record cartons)
	* '''Includes:''' ~~Titled~~: ~~A Collection~~ of ~~Misc~~. ~~Papers~~ and ~~Reports.~~		* '''Includes:''' Myer M. Kessler papers: correspondence, reports, reprints, proposals, papers, and conference materials, including documents from sessions 1-10 of the International Conference on Information Science. Also included in the collection are files from the Technical Information Project (TIP) including user manuals, progress reports, and programs
	* '''Finding aid:''' ~~No finding aid is available~~		* '''Finding aid:''' https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/1008
	* '''Source:''' MIT ~~Online Catalog~~		* '''Source:''' https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/1008
			Photo Credit: MIT Museum

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	== Life ==		== Life ==
	1918 - 1997		1918-1997

	Kessler was born in Odessa, Ukraine (then Russia) and earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biochemistry at MIT and a Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University, 1948. He worked for the former National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., taught physics at Brandeis University and worked on developing radar and military guidance systems at MIT's Radiation Laboratory and Lincoln Laboratory.

	== Contributions ==		== Contributions ==
	Kessler invented bibliographic coupling. He was interested in citation analysis, application of ideas management, and instruction and technology in the administration of academic libraries. He worked on the MIT Technical Information Project (TIP), an early influential online search system. Bourne and Hahn's book on the history of online information searching credits TIP with several milestones in the development of the field. (C.P. Bourne & T.B. Hahn, A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976, pp. 42+) He conducted studies with AIP on citation analysis for laser literature. .		Kessler invented bibliographic coupling. He was interested in citation analysis, application of ideas management, and instruction and technology in the administration of academic libraries. He worked on the MIT Technical Information Project (TIP), an early influential online search system. Bourne and Hahn's book on the history of online information searching credits TIP with several milestones in the development of the field. (C.P. Bourne & T.B. Hahn, A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976, pp. 42+) He conducted studies with AIP on citation analysis for laser literature. .

	~~== Papers ==~~		Kessler was born in Odessa, Ukraine (then Russia) and earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biochemistry at MIT and a Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University, 1948. He worked for the former National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., taught physics at Brandeis University and worked on developing radar and military guidance systems at MIT's Radiation Laboratory and Lincoln Laboratory.
	~~Titled: A Collection~~ of ~~Misc~~. ~~Papers~~ and ~~Reports~~

	~~Location: MIT Library, Archives Division.~~		== Awards ==

	~~Dates: 1960-1970~~		== Offices ==

	~~Size: 1,000 pp. (approx.)~~		== Papers ==
			'''Location #1''' MIT Library, Archives Division.
	== ~~Finding Aid~~ ==
	~~No finding aid is available~~

	== Source ==		* '''Papers dates:''' 1960-1970
	MIT Online Catalog		* '''Size:''' 1,000 pp. (approx.)
			* '''Includes:''' Titled: A Collection of Misc. Papers and Reports.
			* '''Finding aid:''' No finding aid is available
			* '''Source:''' MIT Online Catalog

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== Life ==
1918 - 1997

Kessler was born in Odessa, Ukraine (then Russia) and earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Biochemistry at MIT and a Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University, 1948. He worked for the former National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., taught physics at Brandeis University and worked on developing radar and military guidance systems at MIT's Radiation Laboratory and Lincoln Laboratory.

== Contributions ==
Kessler invented bibliographic coupling. He was interested in citation analysis, application of ideas management, and instruction and technology in the administration of academic libraries. He worked on the MIT Technical Information Project (TIP), an early influential online search system. Bourne and Hahn's book on the history of online information searching credits TIP with several milestones in the development of the field. (C.P. Bourne & T.B. Hahn, A History of Online Information Services, 1963-1976, pp. 42+) He conducted studies with AIP on citation analysis for laser literature. .

== Papers ==
Titled: A Collection of Misc. Papers and Reports

Location: MIT Library, Archives Division.

Dates: 1960-1970

Size: 1,000 pp. (approx.)

== Finding Aid ==
No finding aid is available

== Source ==
MIT Online Catalog