Sándor Dominich (July 12, 1954 – August 13, 2008) was the

George Pólya George Pólya (; ; December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985) was a Hungarian-American mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University. He made fundamental contributi ...

Professor of Computer Science, and the founding leader of th
Centre for Information RetrievalFaculty of Information Technology

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. Born in

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, Dominich proposed the Interaction

Information Retrieval Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the task of identifying and retrieving information system resources that are relevant to an Information needs, information need. The information need can be specified in the form ...

(I2R) model based on the

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Quantum Mechanics Quantum mechanics is the fundamental physical Scientific theory, theory that describes the behavior of matter and of light; its unusual characteristics typically occur at and below the scale of atoms. Reprinted, Addison-Wesley, 1989, It is ...

using

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. The I2R model was implemented in th
I2RMeta
Web meta-search engine, in th

medical image intranet search engine, and in th

intranet search engines. He died at the age of 54 in

Sopron Sopron (; , ) is a city in Hungary on the Austrian border, near Lake Neusiedl/Lake Fertő. History Ancient times-13th century In the Iron Age a hilltop settlement with a burial ground existed in the neighbourhood of Sopron-Várhely. When ...

in 2008. Dominich is the author of the books "Mathematical Foundations of Information Retrieval",

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, (now

Springer Verlag Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing. Originally founded in 1842 in ...

), 2001, and "The Modern Algebra of Information Retrieval",

, 2008.

External links

Book CoverBook CoverResearch group homepage"Mathematical, logical, and formal methods in information retrieval: an introduction to the special issue"
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Volume 54, Issue 4 (February 2003). pgs. 281–284. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dominich, Sandor Hungarian computer scientists People from Aiud 2008 deaths 1954 births