Paul B. Kantor is distinguished professor of Information Science

Information science

-Introduction:Information science is an interdisciplinary science primarily concerned with the analysis, collection, classification, manipulation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of information...

 at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

 in New Jersey

New Jersey

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Biography

Mr. Kantor was educated in Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

, where he took courses taught by Samuel Eilenberg

Samuel Eilenberg

Samuel Eilenberg was a Polish and American mathematician of Jewish descent. He was born in Warsaw, Russian Empire and died in New York City, USA, where he had spent much of his career as a professor at Columbia University.He earned his Ph.D. from University of Warsaw in 1936. His thesis advisor...

, Tsung-Dao Lee

Tsung-Dao Lee

Tsung-Dao Lee is a Chinese born-American physicist, well known for his work on parity violation, the Lee Model, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion physics, nontopological solitons and soliton stars....

, Jack Steinberger

Jack Steinberger

Jack Steinberger is a German-American physicist currently residing near Geneva, Switzerland. He co-discovered the muon neutrino, along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz, for which they were given the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.-Life:...

, Charles Townes, Polykarp Kusch

Polykarp Kusch

Polykarp Kusch was a German-American physicist. In 1955 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics with Willis Eugene Lamb for his accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron was greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of—and...

 and Melvin Schwartz

Melvin Schwartz

Melvin Schwartz was an American physicist. He shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leon M. Lederman and Jack Steinberger for their development of the neutrino beam method and their demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino.He grew up in...

. He earned a Ph.D.

Ph.D.

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 degree in theoretical physics

Theoretical physics

Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena...

 at Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

, working with Sam Treiman

Sam Treiman

Sam Bard Treiman was an American theoretical physicist who produced important research in the fields of cosmic rays, quantum physics, plasma physics and gravity physics. He made major contributions to the understanding of the weak interaction and he and his students are credited with developing...

. He has been a Fulbright Fellow, has received the ASIST Research award, and is a Fellow of the AAAS

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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His research centers on the role of information systems

Information systems

Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...

 for storage and retrieval

Retrieval

Retrieval could refer to:* Information retrieval* Text retrieval* Image retrieval* Document retrieval* Music information retrieval* Medical retrieval* Data retrieval* Knowledge retrieval...

 in a wide range of applications, with particular emphasis on rigorous evaluation of the effectiveness of such systems.

At Rutgers he is a member of the Department of Library and Information Science, the Center for Operations Research RUTCOR, the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Computer Sciences DIMACS

DIMACS

The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science is a collaboration between Rutgers University, Princeton University, and the research firms AT&T, Bell Labs, Telcordia, and NEC. It was founded in 1989 with money from the National Science Foundation...

 and a member the Graduate Faculty of the Department of Computer Science.

Membership

• American Society for Information Science and Technology (American Society for Information Science and Technology
  American Society for Information Science and Technology
  The American Society for Information Science and Technology, sometimes abbreviated ASIS&T or ASIST, is a non-profit membership organization for information professionals...
  
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• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS
  American Association for the Advancement of Science
  The American Association for the Advancement of Science is an international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific responsibility, and supporting scientific education and science outreach for the...
  
  )
• IEEE
• American Physical Society
  American Physical Society
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• American Statistical Association
  American Statistical Association
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Research grants

• NSF
  National Science Foundation
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• DARPA
• ARDA
  Arda
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• US Department of Education.

Publications

• Kantor, Paul B. Objective performance measures for academic and research libraries / by Paul B. Kantor. Washington, D.C. : Association of Research Libraries, 1984. viii, 76 p., [13] leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. ISBN 0-918006-09-0 (pbk.)

• Kantor, Paul B. Studying the cost and value of library services : final report / by Paul B. Kantor, project director and principal investigator, Tefko Saracevic, co-principal investigator, Joann D’Esposito-Wachtmann, project manager. [New Brunswick, N.J.] : Alexandria Project Laboratory, School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies, Rutgers, c1995. 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 28 cm.
• Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science & Technology, Aug/Sep 2002. Mathematical models in information science by Paul B. Kantor "It has been said that mathematicians are basically puzzle solvers, and that they don't so much care what the puzzles are about. That may be a very good ..."
• Intelligence and security informatics : IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, ISI 2005, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 19–20, 2005 : proceedings / Paul Kantor ... [et al.] (eds.). Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2005. xviii, 674 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN 3-540-25999-6
• Ying Sun, Paul B Kantor. Cross-Evaluation: A new model for information system evaluation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Hoboken: Mar 2006. Vol. 57, Iss. 5; p. 614
• Yuval Elovici, Bracha Shapira, Paul B Kantor. A Decision Theoretic Approach to Combining Information Filters: An Analytical and Empirical Evaluation. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Hoboken: Feb 1, 2006. Vol. 57, Iss. 3; p. 306
• Yuval Elovici, Bracha Shapira, Paul B. Kantor. Using the Information Structure Model to Compare Profile-Based Information Filtering Systems. Information Retrieval. Boston: Jan 2003. Vol. 6, Iss. 1; p. 75.
• Paul B Kantor. Mathematical models in information science. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Silver Spring: Aug/Sep 2002. Vol. 28, Iss. 6; p. 22
• Bracha Shapira, Paul B Kantor, Benjamin Melamed. The effect of extrinsic motivation on user behavior in a collaborative information finding system. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Hoboken: Sep 2001. Vol. 52, Iss. 11; p. 879.
• Strategic Appraisal: The Changing Role of Information Warfare. Paul B Kantor. The Library Quarterly. Chicago: Jul 2001. Vol. 71, Iss. 3; p. 425.
• Kwong Bor Ng, Paul B Kantor. Predicting the effectiveness of naive data fusion on the basis of system characteristics. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. Nov 2000. Vol. 51, Iss. 13; p. 1177.
• Paul B Kantor, Endre Boros, Benjamin Melamed, Vladimir Menkov, et al. Capturing human intelligence in the Net. Association for Computing Machinery. Communications of the ACM. New York: Aug 2000. Vol. 43, Iss. 8; p. 112.
• Paul B. Kantor, Ellen M. Voorhees. The TREC-5 Confusion Track: Comparing Retrieval Methods for Scanned Text. Information Retrieval. Boston: May 2000. Vol. 2, Iss. 2-3; p. 165.
• Kwong Bor Ng, Paul B Kantor. Predicting the effectiveness of naive data fusion on the basis of system characteristics. Journal of the American Society for Information Science. 2000. Vol. 51, Iss. 13; p. 1177
• Willard I Zangwill, Paul B Kantor. Toward a theory of continuous improvement and the learning curve. Management Science. Linthicum: Jul 1998. Vol. 44, Iss. 7; p. 910.
• Paul B Kantor, Jung Jin Lee. Testing the Maximum Entropy Principle for Information Retrieval. Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1986–1998). New York: May 1998. Vol. 49, Iss. 6; p. 557
• Tefko Saracevic, Paul B Kantor. Studying the Value of Library and Information Services. Part II. Methodology and Taxonomy. Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1986–1998). New York: Jun 1997. Vol. 48, Iss. 6; p. 543
• Tefko Saracevic, Paul B Kantor. Studying the Value of Library and Information Services. Part I. Establishing a Theoretical Framework. Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1986–1998). New York: Jun 1997. Vol. 48, Iss. 6; p. 527.
• Studying the Cost and Value of Library and Information Services: Applying Functional Cost Analysis to the Library in Transition
• Eileen G Abels, Paul B Kantor, Tefko Saracevic. Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1986–1998). New York: Mar 1996. Vol. 47, Iss. 3; p. 217.
• Jung Jin Lee, Paul B Kantor. A Study of Probabilistic Information Retrieval Systems in the Case of Inconsistent Expert Judgments. Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1986–1998). New York: Apr 1991. Vol. 42, Iss. 3; p. 166.
• Paul B Kantor. Brief Communication A Model for the Stopping Behavior of Users of Online Systems. Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1986–1998). New York: May 1987. Vol. 38, Iss. 3; p. 211.
• Paul B Kantor. A Note on Cumulative Advantage Distributions. Journal of the American Society for Information Science (pre-1986). New York: Jul 1978. Vol. 29, Iss. 4; p. 202.
• Paul B Kantor. Availability Analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science (pre-1986). New York: Sep/Oct 1976. Vol. 27, Iss. 5; p. 311.