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Asked 19th Dec, 2014

Looking for an old paper on a circuit-board information retrieval system implementation?

Many years ago I read a paper on a hardware implementation of an information retrieval system. It was implemented as a circuit board, where the query would be set by putting jumpers on one side of the board and the result would be indicated by LEDs or the equivalent on another side of the board. The math behind it was very insightful, and I'd love to find it again, but I've been unable to. The paper was written (probably well) before 1975, perhaps even in the 1950's. I vaguely remember that the primary author's name began with an S but that's as far as I've gotten. (I'm not thinking of Vannevar Bush's Memex.)
Can anyone help?

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13th Jan, 2015
Ahmad Tasnim Siddiqui
Sherwood College of Professional Management
Dear Sir,
Check the file attached. May be it can help you.
Thanks
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21st Dec, 2014
Saso Tomazic
University of Ljubljana
It resembles me to data-flow computing. Maybe you should check the Maxeler web page, as they produce advanced data-flow supercomputers.
22nd Dec, 2014
Ian Kennedy
University of the Witwatersrand
In 1969 we used large library cards, with the bibliographic
information and abstract one side, and our annoations on the
other. We cut open the prepunched holes around the edge for
each of our keywords. If I wanted something about Education and
Architecture, I would put a knitting needle through the Education hole (1)
and keep the cards that dropped onto the table. I would then
use these cards only, and put a knitting needle through the
Architecture hole (2), and use the dropping cards as my reading list.
A circuit board to do the above would have to have the means to
accept a document number (e.g. 344); accept and store its keywords (numbers 1 and 2).
To retrieve, it would have to have the means to accept a few keyword
numbers, and display all document numbers (e.g. 20, 344 and 401)
that matched the Boolean keyword criteria. E.g. Education(1) AND Architecture (2).
More complex outputs containing OR or NOT functions could be
implemented too. Diodes or Resistor-transistor logic could have been
used to implement the Boolean logic. The only 'Maths' would
have been Boolean algebra.
9th Jan, 2015
Tholakele Xulu
Monash University (South Africa)
See if this cannot assist you.
13th Jan, 2015
Ahmad Tasnim Siddiqui
Sherwood College of Professional Management
Dear Sir,
Check the file attached. May be it can help you.
Thanks
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