Allen Kent

Allen Kent
Born(1921-10-24)October 24, 1921
New York City
DiedMay 1, 2014(2014-05-01) (aged 92)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
NationalityAmerican
OccupationInformation scientist
Years active1952–1992

Allen Kent (October 24, 1921 – May 1, 2014) was an American information scientist.

Early life

He was born in New York City.[1] At City College of New York, he earned a degree in chemistry.[2] During World War II, he served in the United States Army Air Forces.[2] After the war, he worked on a classified project at MIT in mechanized document encoding and search.[1]

Career

In 1955, he helped found the Center for Documentation Communication Research at Western Reserve University.[3] This was "the first academic program in the field of mechanized information retrieval, first using cards, then utilizing new reel-to-reel tape technology."[1] In the same year, he introduced the measures of precision and recall in Perry, Kent & Berry (1955). In 1959, he wrote an article for Harper's magazine entitled, "A Machine That Does Research" which provided one of the first insights in mainstream media about how Americans' lives can change due to electronic information technology.[4] He joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 1963, where in 1970 he began the Department of Information Science.[5] He retired from the university in 1992.[5] At the time of his death, he was Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh[5] The school named a scholarship after him.[6]

Selective bibliography

  • Perry, James W.; Kent, Allen; Berry, Madeline M. (1955). "Machine literature searching X. Machine language; factors underlying its design and development". American Documentation. 6 (4): 242–254. doi:10.1002/asi.5090060411.
  • "A Machine That Does Research," (April 1959), Harper's Magazine
  • Information Analysis and Retrieval, 1962
  • The Structure and Governance of Library Networks with Thomas J. Galvin. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1979.
  • The Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (1968-2003). Edited by Allen Kent, Harold Lancour and Jay E. Daily. New York: Marcel Dekker.
  • The Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology
  • The Encyclopedia of Microcomputers

Awards

References

  1. ^ a b c Dr. Allen Kent, Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Passed Away at 92 Years Archived 2016-04-16 at the Wayback Machine ASIS&T obituary, 2014
  2. ^ a b Obituary: Allen Kent / A pioneer in field of information sciences: Oct. 24, 1921 - May 1, 2014 By Molly Born Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 3, 2014
  3. ^ Case Western Reserve University history, in Dr. Thomas J. Froehlich's Index of Organizations involved in information science
  4. ^ "Obituary: Allen Kent / A pioneer in field of information sciences". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2017-02-28.
  5. ^ a b c Obituary: Allen Kent The University Times, University of Pittsburgh, May 15, 2014.
  6. ^ iSchool remembers Professor Allen Kent Archived 2016-03-07 at the Wayback Machine University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences May 2, 2014.
  7. ^ ASIS&T Best Information Science Book Award past winners, for The Structure and Governance of Library Networks by Allen Kent and Thomas Galvin
  8. ^ "ASIS&T: Award of Merit". Archived from the original on 2014-07-06. Retrieved 2015-12-11.

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