Don Hillman
Donald Hillman (1931-2018) was an English American computer scientist.
Life
Donald Hillman was born in 1931 in London.
Hillman worked at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, for 52 years. He served as head of the Division of Information Science from 1964 to 1973 and was director of the Center for Information & Computer Science from 1967 to 1983. He served as head of the Division of Computer Science when it was part of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department from 1983-2001, and helped to establish the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in 2001.
He died in October 2018.
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.
Publications
Awards
The Lehigh University confers multiple different Hillman awards. [1]
Offices
Further reading
- "A Visionary in the Field of Computer Science." Lehigh News 2019 [2]
Papers
Location #1
- Papers dates:
- Size:
- 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.
- Finding aid:
- Source: Phone conversation with Don Hillman, 6/96.