Karen Spärck Jones, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karen Spärck Jones

British computer scientist

Date of Birth: 26-Aug-1935

Place of Birth: Huddersfield, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 04-Apr-2007

Profession: computer scientist, university teacher, artificial intelligence researcher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Karen Spärck Jones FBA (26 August 1935 – 4 April 2007) was a pioneering British computer scientist responsible for the concept of inverse document frequency, a technology that underlies most modern search engines.
In 2019, The New York Times published her belated obituary in its series Overlooked, calling her "a pioneer of computer science for work combining statistics and linguistics, and an advocate for women in the field."