Robert A. Fairthorne

Robert A. Fainthorne
	Abington, Berkshire, Anglie
Datum a místo úmrtí	24. květen 2000 Hampshire, Anglie
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	ženatý s Doris Mona Whiteside Hirst; syn Simon Fairthorne
	anglické
Vzdělání	1918–1921 Bradfield College, Berkshire; University of London
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Bibliografie

• Mechanical instruments for solving linear simultaneous equations (Robert A. Fairthorne, 1944)
• Matching of operational languages in documentary systems (Robert Arthur Fairthorne, 1956)
• Towards Information Retrieval (Robert Arthur Fairthorne, 1961)
• Unification of theory and empiricism in information retrieval (Robert Arthur Fairthorne, Herner and Company, 1967)
• Essays presented to Robert A. Fairthorne on the occasion of his seventieth birthday (Robert A. Fairthorne, Percy B. Walker, Aslib, 1974)

Články

• The Mathematics of Classification, Proc, British Soc. International Biblio., Vol. 9, October 1947, pp. 35-39.
• Automata and Information, J. Doc., Vol. 8, September 1952, pp. 164-172.
• Information Theory and Clerical Systems, J. Doc., Vol. 9, June 1953, pp. 101-116.
• Some Basic Clerical Factors in the Design of Retrieval Systems, R.A.E. Lib. Mem., Vol. 10, March 1954.
• The Theory of Communication, ASLIB Proc., Vol. 6, November 1954, pp. 255-267.
• Essentials for Document Retrieval, Spec. Lib., Vol. 46, October 1955, pp. 65-70.
• The Patterns of Retrieval, Am. Doc., Vol. 7, April 1956, pp. 65-70.
• “Some Clerical Operations and Languages” IN: Cherry, C., (ed.), Information Theory, Third London Symposium, London, Butterworth, 1956, pp. 111-120.
• The Matching of Operational Languages  in Documentary Systems, AGARD Report 49, Paris, AGARD 1956.
• The R.A.E. Hollerith Punched-Card Installation (1945-52), U.K. Aeronautical Research Council, R & M 3084, London, H. M. Stationery Office, 1958.
• Automatic Retrieval of Recorded Information, Computer J., Vol. 1, April 1958, pp. 36-41.
• Delegation of Classification. Am. Doc., Vol. 9, July 1958, pp. 159-164.
• Algebraic Reprezentation of Languages for Storage and Retrieval, International Conference of Scientific Information, 1958, Washington, D.C., NAtional Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 1959, pp. 1313-1326.
• “Basic Postulates and Common Syntax” IN: Kent, A. (ed.), Information Retrieval and Machine Translation, Vol. 2, New York, Interscience, 1960, pp. 1007-1020.
• “Documentary Classification as a Self-Organizing System” IN: Cherry, C., (ed.), Information Theory: Fouth London Symposium, London, Butterworth, 1961, pp. 426-436.
• Towards Information Retrieval, London, Butterworth, 1961, 211 p
• “Implications of Test Procedures” IN: Kent, A. (ed.), Information Retrieval in Action, Western Reserve University Press, 1962, pp. 109-114.
• “Similarity and Stability of Textual Interests” IN: Kent, A., (ed.), Information Retrieval in Action, Western Reserve University Press, 1962, pp. 183-198.
• “Criteria for the Organs of Informations Systems” IN: Information Systems Workshop; The Designer’s Responsibility and His Methodology, Washington, D.C., Spartan Books, 1962, pp. 113-119.
• An Outsider Inside Information; USA 1961-62, ASLIB Proc., Vol. 14, No. 11, November 1962, pp. 380-391.
• “‘Browsing’ Sxhemes and ‘Specialists’ Schemes” IN: Some Problems of a General Classification Scheme, London Conference, June 1963, Library Association, London, 1964.
• “Mathematics, Mechanics, and Statistics for the Information Sciences Curriculum” In: Proc. of the American Documentation Institute, Annual Meeting, 1963, Part 1. Washington, D.C., Am. Doc. Inst., 1963, pp. 39-40.
• “Basic Parameters of Retrieval Tests” IN: Proc. of the American Documentation Institute, Annual Meeting, 1964, Vol. 1. Washington, D.C., Am. Doc. Inst., 1964, pp. 343-345.
• The Necessity of Non-Descriptors, (Abstract), Proc. of the American Documentation Institute, Annual Meeting, 1964, Part 1. Washington, D.C., Am. Doc. Inst., 1964, pp. 355-356.
• Rapporteur’s Report on Session: Collection Dynamics and Relevance, Classification Research: Proceedings of FID/CR Study Conference at Elsinore, September 1964, Copenhagen, Munskgaar, 1965, pp. 210-214.
• “Use” and “Mention” in the Information a Sciences, Proceedings on the Symposium on Education for Information Science, September 1964, Washington, D.C., Spartan Books, 1965, p. 9-12.
• Notification Theory, (Abstract), 1965 Congress, International Federation for Documentation, Washington, D.C., Spartan Books, 1965, p. 66.
• Some Basic Comments on Retrieval Testing, J. Doc., Vol. 21, December 1965, pp. 267-270.
• Morphology of Information Flow, J. Assoc. Comp. Mach., Vol. 14, October 1967, pp. 710-719.
• Information Processing: Historical Sketch, IN: Encyklopedia Britannica, (Beginning with 1968 edition).
• “The Applied Mathematics of H.P. Luhn” IN: Schultz, C.K., (ed.), Hans Peter Luhn: Pioneer of Information Science-Selected Works, Spartan Books, New York, 1968, pp. 21-23.
• “Content Analysis, Specification, and Control” IN: Cuadra, Carlos A. (ed.), Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Chicago, Encyklopedia Britannica, Inc., Vol. 4, 1969, pp. 73-109.
• “The Scope and Aims of the Information Sciences and Technologies” IN: On Theoretical Problems of Informatics, FID, 435, VINITI, Moscow, 1969, pp. 25-31.
• Progress in Documentation, J. Doc., Vol. 25, No. 4, 1969, pp. 319-343.
• Review. Meetham, R., Information Retrieval; The Essential Technology, J. Doc., Vol. 26, No. 1, March 1970, pp. 78-81.
• Innovation. A Researcher’s View: The Detection of Innovation, ASLIB Proc., Vol. 22, No. 11, November 1970, pp. 550-558.
• “The Symmetries of Ignorance” IN: Jesse Shera Festschift, (ed.), Rawshi, C., Case Western Reverse Univ. Press.
• “Problems of Data Retrieval and Dependent Techniques” IN: Scientific Communication and the Problems of Information Science, Vol. 2, FID/RI Committee Publications on Theoretical Problems of Inf. Ret., 1971.

Použité zdroje

The Fairthorne Family. Ocotilloroad.com [online]. Dostupné z: http://www.ocotilloroad.com/geneal/fairthorne1.html#ROBE1904

L. Wallace & Claire K. Schultz, 1971. "Robert A. Fairthorne—A biographical sketch," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 22(3), pages 161-165, May.