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'''Allen Kent''' (1921–2014) was an American pioneer of information science and one of the founders of modern information retrieval.

[[File:Allen Kent2.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|Allen Kent<br>Credit: University of Pittsburgh Library System Digital Collections]]

After early work in mechanized document encoding at MIT, Kent helped establish the Center for Documentation Communication Research at Western Reserve University in 1955 and later founded the Department of Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh.

His research advanced free-text searching, vocabulary control, and mechanized retrieval systems. Kent was also co-editor of the landmark ''Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science'', guiding the field’s development for decades.

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