Thanks, Martin. I've been friends with George for years. I've been
primarily trying to find out what standard dictionary publishers are up
to. (Doesn't seem much for the American side of things.)

Ken

M. Laplante wrote:
> George A. Miller was still professor emeritus at Princeton last I checked, and
he developed
> the very successful WordNet lexical database there, which is the model for
dozens of other
> lexical databases in different languages, and is the basis for many electronic
dictionaries.
>
> http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
>
>> I thought that people had given up asking about such matters. You
>> might try to find something about George A. Miller. I am not sure he's
>> still alive (he'd be 88), but he was head of the psychology department
>> at Princeton when he and a few others of us used to meet at M.I.T. back
>> in the 1960s to discuss cognitive manipulation by computer (at a time
>> when most people weren't sure if it was spelled "computor" or
>> "Computer"). Oliver Selfridge was in charge of a project there called
>> Baseball; I cannot recall all the others' names, but I do know that
>> Victor Yngve was often in attendance. Then, too, there was a lady,
>> Margaret something, a wonderful professor from Cambridge University,
>> whom I met years later, when we had a marvelous time resuscitating
>> some of the old thoughts, most of which, alas, have now fled. As you
>> might know, my interest in it all lay in the fact that my Random House
>> Unabridged (1966) was the first dictionary to use computers in its
>> compilation, styling, editing, etc., and---ultimately---typesetting.
>> The only reasonably accessible item available on the subject that I
>> can recall is my "The Use of Typographic Styling in Information
>> Retrieval," WORD, 1966 (no. ?), which had to be written backwards, so
>> to speak, because nobody would publish it or understand it in any
>> other form at the time. I can send you an offprint if you send me a
>> s.a.s.e. (not because of the 41-cent postage but because I haven't
>> your address and have grown lazy). Larry Urdang
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