Dialog From the Beginning

Google Tech Talks March 23, 2005 ABSTRACT As we work on the challenges of organizing the world's information, we owe our collective progress to the early pioneers who first made information available through a computer. Imagine research in a world without personal computers, the Internet, and high-speed telecommunications. Back in the 1970s, students really hung out in the bowels of library stacks and their favorite resource was called "The Readers Guide to Periodical Literature." Dr. Roger Summit is one of the early innovators whose brainchild, Dialog Information Services, was the de facto standard in online information retrieval for 25 years. Roger will discuss the philosophy behind and the...