The Shakespeare Theory of Seven Ages of Man

Nowadays, information is the cornerstone of the modern enterprise and the web became the largest and most accessible information resources. The ability to gather, arrange, manipulate information with computers has given practice as well as for business people in order to manage information in an effective way. Information retrieval is a process and techniques of searching and interpreting information in order to store the data for easy retrieval when needed. The article entitled “Seven Ages of Information Retrieval”, the author who is Michael Lesk explained about the history or the beginning of information retrieval based on the theory of Vannevar Bush’s 1945, Warren Weaver in 1949 and also related to theory of Shakespeare 1955 which is seven ages of man, starting from infancy and leading to senility.

Vannevar Bush (1980-1974) was a leader of American science and engineering during and after world war II. He was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb and the analogue computer, as well as an administrator of government scientific activities. By any standard, Vannevar Bush was one of the moves of the 20th century. (Encyclopedia of World Biography).

Warren Weaver was born in 1984 at Reedsburg and died in 1978. He is mathematicians. He studies at the University of Wisconsin, taught there and directed the Rockefeller Foundation’s Natural Science Division (1932-55). He is considered the first person to propose using electronic computers for the translation of natural languages. In a 1949 memo, he proposed that statistical techniques from the field of information theory could be used to enable computers to translate text from one natural language to another automatically. (Britannica Concise Encyclope...

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...ation retrieval. The author try to make it more understandable by relate to Shakespeare theory of seven ages of man. He used different term but it still showed the same meaning although different things. This article gives a positive impact to readers who have no knowledge in information retrieval because it discuss from the beginning of the existing of theory based on the imaginary Bush and Weaver. At the end of this article, the author also state what might go wrong and right of imaginary of Bush in development information retrieval.

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