Robert Roy Korfhage

Background

He was son of Doctor Roy Korfhage who as a chemist at Nestlé in Fulton, Oswego County, New New York

Education

At the same university, he got masters and Doctor of Philosophy (1962) in mathematics, his Doctor of Philosophy dissertation being On Systems of Distinct Representatives for Several Collections of Sets advised by Bernard Galler (1962).

Career

Korfhage got his bachelors (1952) in engineering mathematics at University of Michigan, while working part time at United Aircraft and Transport Corporation in East Hartford as programmer. Korfhage then joined the faculty at North Carolina State University (1962-1964), Purdue University (1964-1970), Southern Methodist University (1970-1986) and the University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences (1986-1998). Korfhage"s research focused on graph theory and information retrieval, and he wrote several textbooks and edited several collections in his area.

In his later years, he worked on new ways of information visualization and also genetic algorithms to optimize text queries.

He died of cancer in Pittsburgh.

Works

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  • Discrete Computational Structures (Computer Science and Applied Mathematics)

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  • Discrete Computational Structures (Computer Science and Applied Mathematics)

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  • Logic and Algorithms with Applications to the Computer and Information Sciences
  • Discrete Computational Structures

Connections

Father:

Roy Fred Korfhage

Mother:

Loretta Margaret (Krohn) Korfhage

Spouse:

Ann Hobart Willard

child:

Lisa Korfhage

child:

Margaret Korfhage

child:

Willard Korfhage

child:

David Korfhage