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Peer reviewedSmith, Elizabeth S. – Information Technology and Libraries, 1993
Describes the evolution of computerized information storage and retrieval from its mid-nineteenth century beginnings in theoretical works on logic by George Boole, to the applications of Boole's logic to switching circuits by Claude Shannon in the 1930s, to the development of coordinate indexing by Mortimer Taube in the 1940s and 1950s. (Contains…
Descriptors: Coordinate Indexes, Electric Circuits, Indexing, Information Retrieval
