SIGIR Forum, Volume 31

Volume 31, Number 1, Spring 1997

• Title.
  

• Donna Harman:
  Dedication to Professor Gerard Salton. 1
  

• Michael Lesk:
  The SMART Lab Report: The Harvard Years (1961-1968). 2-6
  
• Donna Harman:
  The SMART Lab Report: The Early Cornell Years (1965-1970). 6-12
  
• Edward A. Fox, Harry Wu:
  The SMART Lab Report: The Transition Years (1975-1982). 12-17
  
• Chris Buckley:
  The SMART Lab Report: The Modern SMART Years (1980-1996). 17-22
  

• Gerard Salton:
  A Blueprint for Automatic Indexing. 23-36
  
• Gerard Salton:
  Letter to Members of ACM/SIGIR. 37-38
  
• Gerard Salton:
  Expert Systems and Information Retrieval. 39-42
  
• Gerard Salton:
  Publications. 43-56
  

• SIGIR Membership Directory 1997. 57-88
  

Volume 31, Number 2, Fall 1997

• Title.
  
• Nicholas J. Belkin:
  Chair's Message. 1
  
• David D. Lewis:
  Minutes of the 1997 ACM SIGIR Business Meeting. 2-6
  
• Peter Willett:
  Lab Report Special Section: Information Retrieval Research in the University of Sheffield. 7-13
  
• Nicholas J. Belkin:
  Remarks on the Presentation of the Gerard Salton Award for Excellence in Research in Information Retrieval to Tefko Saracevic, July 1997. 14-15
  
• Tefko Saracevic:
  USERS LOST: Reflections on the Past, Future, and Limits of Information Science. 16-27
  
• Elizabeth G. Hetzler:
  Beyond Word Relations - SIGIR '97 Workshop. 28-33
  
• Robert C. Groman:
  Searching Multimedia Databases by Content (Book Review). 34
  
• Announcements. 35-37