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Karen Spärck Jones
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
Thesis Synonymy and Semantic Classification  (1964[2])
Doctoral advisorRichard Braithwaite[1]
Websitewww.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/ksj21

Karen Spärck Jones FBA (26 August 1935 – 4 April 2007) was a British computer scientist.[3][4]

Personal Life

Karen Ida Boalth Spärck Jones was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. Her father was Owen Jones, a lecturer in chemistry, and her mother was Ida Spärck, a Norwegian who moved to Britain during World War II. They left Norway on one of the last boats out after the German invasion in 1940[1]. Spärck Jones was educated at a grammar school in Huddersfield and then Girton College, Cambridge from 1953 to 1956, reading History, with an additional final year in Moral Sciences (philosophy). She briefly became a school teacher, before moving into Computer Science. During her career in Computer Science, she campaigned hard for more women to enter computing[1]. She was married to fellow Cambridge computer scientist Roger Needham until his death in 2003. She died 4 April 2007 at Willingham in Cambridgeshire.

Career

She worked at the Cambridge Language Research Unit from the late 1950s,

tf-idf weighting scheme.[10]. There is an annual BCS lecture named in her honour [11]
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Honours

Awards

  • Gerard Salton Award (1988)
  • ASIS&T
    Award of Merit (2002)
  • ACL Lifetime Achievement Award (2004)
  • Lovelace Medal
    (2007)
  • ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award (2007)


Further obituaries

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Jones, Karen Ida Boalth Spärck (1935–2007), Computer Scientist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  2. ^ Karen Spärck Jones (1986). Synonymy and Semantic Classification (thesis published as a book). Edinburgh Information Technology series. Vol. 1. Edinburgh University Press.
  3. doi:10.1162/coli.2007.33.3.289
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  4. doi:10.1002/asi.20784
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  5. ^ "Computer Laboratory obituary".
  6. doi:10.1108/eb026526
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  7. ISBN 1-4020-3343-5. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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  8. doi:10.1108/eb026526
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  9. doi:10.1016/0020-0271(73)90043-0
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  10. ISBN 1-4020-3343-5
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  11. ^ "Karen Spärck Jones lecture". BCS Academy of Computing. British Computer Society. Retrieved 03/10/2013. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

Further reading

Preceded by ACL Lifetime Achievement Award
2004 		Succeeded by


Category:1935 births Category:2007 deaths Category:Alumni of Girton College, Cambridge Category:British computer scientists Category:British educators Category:Women computer scientists Category:Fellows of the British Academy Category:Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Category:Fellows of Newnham College, Cambridge Category:Fellows of Wolfson College, Cambridge Category:Members of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Category:People from Huddersfield Category:Cancer deaths in England Category:Women in technology

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