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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. | ||
[[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. | ||
== 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. | |||
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 == | ||
*"Bibliographic coupling between scientific papers," ''American Documentation'' 24 (1963), pp. 123-131. | |||
== | == 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 == | ||
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]. | |||
Revision as of 17:25, 13 January 2025
Myer Mike Kessler (1917-1997) was a US pioneer of information science.
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 MIT's Radiation Laboratory and Lincoln Laboratory. He worked at MIT from 1954 to 1976. He died on August 13, 1997.
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.
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
- "Bibliographic coupling between scientific papers," American Documentation 24 (1963), pp. 123-131.
Further reading
- [Brief obituary] MIT News, August 27, 1997 [1]
- Bourne, Charles P. & Trudi B.Hahn. A history of online information services, 1963-1976. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
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: [2].