Norbert Fuhr, born in 1956, is a professor of computer science and the leader of the Duisburg Information Engineering Group based at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He received his first degree in technical computer science from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1980, and in 1986 his doctorate from the Department of Computer Science of the same university on Probabilistic Indexing and Retrieval. He held a postdoctoral position in Darmstadt until 1991, when he was appointed associate professor in the Computer Science Department of the Technical University of Dortmund, and has been a full professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen since 2002. His dissertation was awarded the Gerhard Pietsch Award of the German Society of Documentation in 1987, and in 2012 he received the Gerard Salton Award.
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Norbert Fuhr (born 1956) is a professor of computer science
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Probabilistic Indexing and Retrieval
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Probabilistic Indexing and Retrieval
In Group: Information Retrieval Systems, Honors and awards, Salton Award
In 2012, he received the Gerard Salton Award.
Affiliated With: University of Duisburg-Essen, Affiliation, university-of-duisburg-essen
the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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