Claire Kelly Schultz (nonfiction)
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Claire Kelly Schultz (November 17, 1924 - May 28, 2015) was a leading figure in the early development of automated information retrieval systems and information science.
A "documentalist", she was particularly known for her work in thesaurus construction and machine-aided indexing, innovating techniques for punch card information retrieval.
While working as a librarian at the Merck, Sharp and Dohme chemical company she "developed a machine-sorted card system that employed Boolean retrieval logic.Her first use of punched cards in 1949 used the Mooers Zator system."
This has been seen as a "transitional role of such punched-card systems toward later use of computers for information retrieval".
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- Claire Kelly Schultz @ Wikipedia