Background
Summit, Roger Kent was born on October 14, 1930 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Paul Maurice and Mildred Suzanne Summit.
Summit, Roger Kent was born on October 14, 1930 in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Son of Paul Maurice and Mildred Suzanne Summit.
AB, Stanford University, 1952. Master of Business Administration, Stanford University, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1965.
Research scientist Lockheed Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, California, 1965-1972. Manager DIALOG information retrieval svd. Lockheed Corporation, 1972-1977.
President DIALOG Information Services, Inc. DIALOG (subsidiary Lockheed Corporation), 1981-1988. President, chief executive officer DIALOG Information Services, Inc.
(subsidiary Knight-Ridder, Inc.), 1988-1991. President Electronic Public Group Knight-Ridder Inc., 1990-1991. Chairman emeritus Dialog Information Services, Inc., since 1991.
Director Lockheed Information Systems, Palo Alto, 1977-1981. Member science and technical information working group Department Commerce and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Member public-private sector relations task force National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.
Trustee Engineering Index, Inc.
Served to lieutenant (junior grade) United States Navy, 1952-1955. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (member council 1984-1987). Member Information Industry Association (director, Information Product of Year award 1975, Hall of Fame award 1982, distinguished Service award, 1991), Association Information and Dissemination Centers (vice president 1975-1976), American Society Information Science (Merit award, 1991), Special Libraries Association (honorary since 1989).
Married Virginia Buckhorn, August 8, 1964. Children: Jennifer Lee, Scott Wesley.