Wendi Pohs
Wendi Pohs has been in textual information delivery in the software industry for almost 20 years. After receiving her Master's Degree in library and information science from the University of Michigan, she began her career at the American Mathematical Society writing COBOL programs to support a new system for displaying mathematical formulas online. Her interest in finding information in text led her to the early text retrieval systems, such as Stanford's SPIRES and Battelle's BASIS, and this,...See more
Wendi Pohs has been in textual information delivery in the software industry for almost 20 years. After receiving her Master's Degree in library and information science from the University of Michigan, she began her career at the American Mathematical Society writing COBOL programs to support a new system for displaying mathematical formulas online. Her interest in finding information in text led her to the early text retrieval systems, such as Stanford's SPIRES and Battelle's BASIS, and this, in turn, led her to Digital Equipment Corporation and the development of a competitive intelligence retrieval system, successfully used for years by the Digital sales force. Wendi joined Lotus Development Corporation just as the Web was taking off. While Lotus pioneered the concept of topic-specific databases or collaborative computing in the workplace, increasingly easy access to mail systems and newsgroups fostered a sense of online community on the Internet. The resulting proliferation of unstructured information emphasized the need for both software tools and a professional background geared towards meaningful organization of text. Wendi was asked to join the Knowledge Discovery System development team as resident "cybrarian." See less
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