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People will resist information unless the price of not knowing it greatly exceeds the price of learning it.

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The requirements of information retrieval, of finding information whose location or very existence is a priori unknown.

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An information retrieval system will tend not to be used whenever it is more painful and troublesome for a customer to have information than for him not to have it... Where an information retrieval system tends not to be used, a more capable information retrieval system may tend to be used even less.

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Information retrieval is the name for the process or method whereby a prospective user of information is able to convert his need for information into an actual list of citations to documents in storage containing information useful to him. It is the finding or discovery process with respect to stored information. It is another, more general, name for the production of a demand bibliography. Information retrieval embraces the intellectual aspects of the description of information and its specification for search, and also whatever systems, technique, or machines that are employed to carry out the operation. Information retrieval is crucial to documentation and organization of knowledge.

Calvin Mooers

Calvin Mooers

Calvin Mooers

Born: October 24, 1919

Died: December 1, 1994 (aged 75)

Bio: Calvin Northrup Mooers was an American computer scientist known for his work in information retrieval and for the programming language TRAC.

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