Saul Gorn
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Saul Gorn (10 November-1912 – 22 February-1992) was a pioneer in computer and information science who was a member of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania for more than 30 years. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) presented him its Distinguished Service Award for 1974.
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- A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn't.
- "The Individual and Political Life of Information Systems", in Heilprin, Markuson, and Goodman, ed., Proceedings of the Symposium on Education for Information Science, Warrenton, Virginia, September 7-10, 1965 (Washington, DC: Spartan Books, 1965)
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- "Self-Annihilating Sentences: Saul Gorn's Compendium of Rarely Used Clichés", University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MS-CIS-85-0, January 1985; reissued in memoriam as No. MS-CIS-92-25, March 1992. (An unsourced collection of oxymoronic and tautological quotes.)
- "Saul Gorn", in John A. N. Lee, International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers, 1995, ISBN 1884964478, pp. 342–348
