Don Hillman
Donald Hillman (1931-2018) was a pioneer of information science. He worked at Lehigh University for 52 years.
Life
A brief obituary is available at: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/mcall/name/donald-hillman-obituary?id=13040808
A bulletin about his life and work is available at: https://www2.lehigh.edu/news/a-visionary-in-the-field-of-computer-science
Contributions
Developed a special mechanized retrieval system at Lehigh; Creator of the Leadermart System, the most powerful text retrieval system of its time (late 60s, early 70s); Worked on early computer-based bibliographic record systems (Leader, Leadermart) at Lehigh University with NSF support; Also did early studies on logic and linguistics; Innovative online system LEADER--ahead of his time in the theoretical development--see Bellardo and Bourne draft (Bellardo); In last few years has not been doing much IR work but is still active in such areas as databases, expert systems, hypermedia, etc.
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Papers
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- Includes: He has some of his papers on early IR work but not much; No decision has been made on the deposit of his papers but will seriously consider Lehigh for deposit.
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- Source: Phone conversation with Don Hillman, 6/96.