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Manfred Kochen

Manfred "Fred" Kochen, 1928-1989: A Tribute

by P. F. Anderson, pfa@umich.edu

About Dr. Kochen's Life and Work

Garfield, Eugene. Manfred Kochen: In Memory of an Information Scientist Pioneer qua World Brain-ist. Current Contents (June 19, 1989) n.25:3-14. http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v12p166y1989.pdf

Garfield, Eugene. From the World Brain to the Informatorium -- With a Little Help from Manfred Kochen. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Symposium in honor of Manfred Kochen, September 21, 1999. http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/kochen_worldbrain.html

Gordon, Michael David; Blair, David; Lindsay, Robert. Manfred Kochen: Remembrances of a Scholar and a Gentle Man. JASIS 1989 40(4):223-225.

Westland, Chris. Google Doesn't Work. Well You Needn't (blog entry) Tuesday, December 13, 2005. http://wellyouneednot.blogspot.com/2005/12/google-doesnt-work.html

[Williams, Robert ?]. Manfred Kochen. Index of Information Science Pioneers. http://www.libsci.sc.edu/bob/isp/kochen.htm

Works Available Online

Kochen, Manfred. Stability in the Growth of Knowledge. American Documentation Jul 1969 20(3):186-197. http://www.cam.cornell.edu/~ariel/scientific_ideas/kochen.pdf

Awards

1974 Winner of the ASIS Award of Merit (the association's highest award): http://www.asis.org/awards/award_of_merit.html

Related Work

Fashioning The Emerging World Brain / World Mind: A Workshop at the University of Calgary, June 14th, 1997; Calgary, Alberta, Canada: http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/WBT/refs.htm

 

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To be useful to the "average" person, an encyclopedic system must be enormously flexible and adaptable to patterns of use and to the growth of our collective understanding and wisdom, much more so than our present educational system. It must play an active rather than an entirely passive part in the man-IR system relation. It must transform knowledge into understanding not only in the way in which an individual scholar builds for himself a coherent organized image from and about what he knows, but also in the way in which a community of scholars evolve a theory. Machines would, of course, play only a part in such an encyclopedic system. It is still the society of scholars who have the responsibility for such a synthesis, as well as for representing it in the variety of forms suitable for effective communication, inspiration, and so on. The key problem is how to organize such a society of scholars. What roles should various types of machine assistance play? -- Kochen, Manfred. "Introduction." The Growth of Knowledge: Readings on Organization and Retrieval of Information. NY: Wiley, (c)1967, p. 4-5.
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