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Harold Borko (1922-2012) wanted to understand concepts of underlying retrieval of information from documents with the practical goal of automating the process.

Life

Borko worked for: Rand Corporation; System Development Corp.; UCLA; Associate head of language processing and retrieval group, SDC 1964. He completed research with Doyle and Simmons. While at SDC, he "wanted to understand concepts of underlying retrieval of information from documents with the practical goal of automating the process." The result was BOLD. In 1968, Borko took a faculty position at the UCLA School of Library Service.

While at SDC, he "used a time-shared computer connected to teletypewriters and cathode ray tubes to search for and display titles and to compare various indexing methods" (Farkas-Conn). He sees information science as "a true discipline that investigates the properties and behavior of information, the forces governing the flow of information, and the means for processing information for optimal accessibility and usability" (Shera article).

For an obituary and brief biographical information see: https://web.archive.org/web/20130215191538/http://gseis.ucla.edu/news-events/news-items/harold-borko-1922-2012-professor-pioneered-information-studies-at-ucla

Contributions

information retrieval and language processing

Awards:

1988 Outstanding Information Science Teacher (ASIS); 1994 Award of Merit (ASIS).

Selected Publications

Papers

LOCATION: SDC. No specific plans for deposit but possibly UCLA Special Collections Division.

SOURCE: Phone conversation with Harold Borko, 9/95.

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 Harold Borko (1922-2012) wanted to understand concepts of underlying retrieval of information from documents with the practical goal of automating the process.
 == Life ==
-Borko worked for: System Development Corp.; Professor, UCLA; Associate head of language processing and retrieval group, SDC 1964. He completed research with Doyle and Simmons. While at SDC, he "wanted to understand concepts of underlying retrieval of information from documents with the practical goal of automating the process." The result was BOLD. In 1967, Borko took a faculty position at UCLA - School of Library Service.
+Borko worked for: Rand Corporation; [[System Development Corporation|'''System Development Corp.''']]; UCLA; Associate head of language processing and retrieval group, SDC 1964. He completed research with Doyle and Simmons. While at SDC, he "wanted to understand concepts of underlying retrieval of information from documents with the practical goal of automating the process." The result was BOLD. In 1968, Borko took a faculty position at the UCLA School of Library Service.
 While at SDC, he "used a time-shared computer connected to teletypewriters and cathode ray tubes to search for and display titles and to compare various indexing methods" (Farkas-Conn). He sees information science as "a true discipline that investigates the properties and behavior of information, the forces governing the flow of information, and the means for processing information for optimal accessibility and usability" (Shera article).
-For an obituary and brief biographical information see: <nowiki>http://gseis.ucla.edu/news-events/news-items/harold-borko-1922-2012-professor-pioneered-information-studies-at-ucla</nowiki>
+For an obituary and brief biographical information see: https://web.archive.org/web/20130215191538/http://gseis.ucla.edu/news-events/news-items/harold-borko-1922-2012-professor-pioneered-information-studies-at-ucla
 == Contributions ==
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 '''Awards:'''
-Outstanding Information Science Teacher('''ASIS'''); 1994 Award of Merit('''ASIS''').
+Outstanding Information Science Teacher ('''[[American Society for Information Science|ASIS]]'''); 1994 Award of Merit ('''ASIS''').
 == Selected Publications ==