Herbert Marvin Ohlman

Inventor

1927 – 2002

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Who was Herbert Marvin Ohlman?

Herbert Marvin Ohlman is the inventor of permutation indexing, or Permuterm and is one of the pioneers of Information Science and Technology. He has been recognized and included in the Pioneers of Information Science in North America Project by ASIS.

Permuterm is known one of the first successful punch card indexing systems, and is still referenced today in the data indexing field. Ohlman published a variety of papers on Permuterm and other Information Science and Technology and communication topics, which are now at the Charles Babbage Institute at The University of Minnesota.

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Born
1927
Died
2002

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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