Obituary of Karen Sparck Jones, a self-taught programmer whose 1972 research paper on natural language processing laid the groundwork for modern search engines
A pioneer of computer science for work combining statistics and linguistics, and an advocate for women in the field. Tweets: @dtunkelang , @jeremyphoward , @mededitor , @nytimestech , @stemettes , @potteratwork , @girlswhocode , and @bnuseibeh Tweets: Daniel Tunkelang / @dtunkelang : Glad to see the NYT belatedly recognize the most influential person in the development of modern information retrieval. http://www.nytimes.com/... Jeremy Howard / @jeremyphoward : “Overlooked No