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A new method of recording and searching information (1953) (fermatslibrary.com)
25 points by BerislavLopac on June 27, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


Is this the same Luhn that brought us the Luhn checksum for checking the validity of credit card numbers?


Yes.

Stop words are also attributed to him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_word#History_of_stop_word...


Also KWIC indices, hashing, ...[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Peter_Luhn


Yes, the same Hans Peter Luhn (German-born U.S.-American researcher mostly with IBM R&D - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Peter_Luhn). He also single-handedly invented automatic document summarization and knowledge management.


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