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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Lesk talks next week at U of T
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Date: Thu, 25-Oct-84 15:12:48 EDT
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From the DCS seminar listings:

	Colloquium  Tuesday Oct 30  1100 SF1105
	Mike Lesk of Bellcore
	"Helping the Lost and Confused:  Computer Retrieval of Books and Maps"

I won't reproduce the abstract, but it sounds interesting.  Stuff on large
databases, how people search them, how machines should search them.  For
those of you who don't know who Lesk is, here's the bio that came with the
abstract:

	Dr. Lesk has a PhD in Chemical Physics, Harvard 1969.  Studied
	the RF spectrum of metastable carbon monoxide.  Was at Bell Labs
	in Computer Science research 1969-83, and is now manager of
	Computer Science research at Bellcore.  Worked on information
	retrieval, text processing (tbl, -ms, refer), networking (uucp),
	compilers (lex, early cpp and C libraries), and other software
	hacking problems.  Is major user of disk space.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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