On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 3:01 PM, Ed Sharpe via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org
> wrote:
> Mark E. Rorvig , Denton, associate professor of library and information
> sciences, 1995-2002. Rorvig was nationally recognized as a pioneer in the
> field of information retrieval. From 1990 to 1995, while serving as an
> adjunct professor at UNT, he worked as a computer engineer for NASA at the
> Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston. His research focused on
> deciphering large amounts of information and finding new ways to piece it
> together. He produced four U.S. patents on information retrieval
> algorithms. Rorvig earned a bachelor's degree in English at Seattle
> University, a master's in library service from Columbia University and a
> doctorate in information studies from the University of California at
> Berkeley. At UNT, he led the master's program in information systems.any
> one know him?
> I took some photos for a book he did on microcomputers in libraries
> and took an into to dp class from him when I started Computer
> Exchange in AZ I had talked into course years before from
> someone else but thought hey good to take it now things have changed and
> I am going into the biz!
>
> I talked to him again years ago and thanked him for admitting me to
> an already full class...but in looking him up to get some data from
> him find he had passed but almost nothing out there....in the way
> of info except for the brief info in google. I remember during
> that class period I got first pdp-8 m or f ? and brought it into
> class and showed the students how I would toggle it....
>
> Funny this is when I got to first play on the HP2000 F I later to own
> surplus form the college that shaped my entire future business (
> still have it under glass at SMECC)
>
>
> Having that PDP 8 was great as a tty tester! Sold many ttys in the
> early days....
>
> thanks ed sharpe archivist for smecc
>
>
I don't know about him, but I'm sorry for your loss.
--
Eric Christopherson
