Melvin Earl Maron

Melvin Earl Maron
Fields Computer Science
Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Known for

Melvin Earl "Bill" Maron is an American computer scientist and emeritis professor of University of California, Berkeley. Maron is best known for his work on probabilistic information retrieval which he published together with his friend and colleague Lary Kuhns. [1] [2] Quite remarkably, Maron also pioneered relational databases, proposing a system called the Relational Data File in 1967, on which Ted Codd based his Relational model of data. [3]

  1. Maron, Melvin E.; Kuhns, J. L. (1960). "On relevance, probabilistic indexing, and information retrieval". Journal of the ACM 7 (3): 216–244. doi:10.1145/321033.321035.
  2. Maron, Melvin E. (2008). "An Historical Note on the Origins of Probabilistic Indexing" (PDF). Information Processing and Management 44 (2): 971–972. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2007.02.012.
  3. Levein, Roger E.; Maron, Melvin E. (1967). "A computer system for inference execution and data retrieval". Communications of the ACM 10 (11): 715–721. doi:10.1016/10.1145/363790.363817.
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