Karen Sparck Jones (1935-2007)

Jones was a computer scientist born in Huddersfield of English and Norwegian parents,
She studied History at Girton College, Cambridge and worked as a teacher before moving into computer science.
A self-taught programmer, Jones is best known for her research on language processing and information retrieval.
She developed the inverse document frequency (IDF) weighting for information retrieval, used in Internet search engines like Google
Jones was appointed as a Fellow of the British Academy and was awarded the BCS Lovelace Medal in 2007.

Image: The New York Times (Accessed June 2020)

Author: Efe Otobrise (2020) LJMU Student

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