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'''James Louis Dolby''' (1926-1985) was a US mathematician and computer scientist. | |||
James Louis Dolby (1926-1985) | |||
== Life == | == 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 == | == Contributions == | ||
Dolby worked on index merging algorithms, data analysis, pattern recognition, and linguistic computation. | |||
== | == Publications == | ||
Several publications are listed by Google Scholar. [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22James+L.+Dolby%22] | |||
''' | *"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. [https://doi.org/10.2307/411576] | |||
*"An algorithm for variable-length proper-name compression." ''Journal of Library Automation'' 3, no. 4 (1970): 257-275. [https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/5259/4734] | |||
*"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. | |||
Latest revision as of 21:05, 8 April 2025
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.