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| | Calvin Mooers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Mooers was a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, attended the University of Minnesota, and received a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1941. |
 | | He founded the Rockford Research Institute in 1961, where he developed the TRAC programming language, and attempted to control its distribution and development using trademark law, because at the time neither copyright nor patent law would allow him to control what he saw as his intellectual property and profit from it. |
 | | He coined the term "Information Retrieval" in 1950, and went on from there to obtain several patents in information retrieval and signaling, produce a text-handling language (TRAC), author some 200 publications, and form one of the first companies whose only concern was information. |
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