Don Hillman

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.

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.