Lauren B. Doyle

Lauren B. Doyle (1926- ) was a US developer of online retrieval systems.

Life

Lauren B. Doyle (1926- ) developed online retrieval systems and wrote various articles on information science.

Contributions

System Development Corporation; Involved with 2 of earliest online retrieval systems: BOLD and Protosynthex; Spring 1960 worked on SAGE system (Bellardo & Bourne); Wanted a practical system for reading, writing, answering questions in natural English; The result was Protosynthex I which he worked on with Robert Simmons. (Bellardo & Bourne); Research with Borko; Emphasis was between documentation and communication and linguistic research; They consider information science "a true interdisciplinary science involving the efforts of librarians, logicians, engineers, mathematicians, and behavior scientists" (Glynn Harmon).

Publications

Numerous publications are listed in Google Scholar. [1]

• "The microstatistics of text." Information Storage and Retrieval 1(4): 189-214 (1963).
• "Is Automatic Classification a Reasonable Application of Statistical Analysis of Text?" J. ACM 12(4): 473-489 (1965).
• "Associated characteristics of words in text." Commun. ACM 5(4): 223 (1962).
• "Information retrieval." Commun. ACM 4(4): 195 (1961)
• "Semantic Road Maps for Literature Searchers." J. ACM 8(4): 553-578 (1961)
• Information Retrieval and Processing. Los Angeles: Melville Publishing, 1975.
• "The Changing Horizon of Information Storage and Retrieval." With H. Borko. American Behavioral Scientist 7, no 10 (June 1964): 3-8. [2]
• Sixty ideas in Sixty months. Santa Monica: System Development Corp., 1964.

He also wrote an amusing article on the origins of the term "information retrieval: "I think, therefore IR." ACM SIGIR Forum 6, no. 2 (1971): 12-15. [3]

Papers

See System Development Corporation for some papers relating to his work.