Richard Herbert (AKA Dick) Giering,I

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Forschungsplan

As of September 10, 2013 (Go To Index of Names)

SOURCE

Date of Action What or Who is reported upon. What is the source(s) - From Where does the Information come. June 29, 1999 All Initial and Basic Information Form filled and submitted by Dick Giering, E-Mail: , Form found under 018_003.FRM in the NEW_PERS sub-directory November 4, 2001 Renumbered worksheets (from 18_3 to 17_3) Author

Date of Action What or Who is reported upon. What is the source(s) - From Where does the Information come. February 12, 2002 1981 Family Portrait Picture scanned by author for inclusion. March 6, 2005 Added Honors Section The Author.

OCCUPATION:
1995 - Retired, devoting full time to the Genealogy project.
1993 - 1995 - Practicioners Publishing House, Hired to convert publications to CD-ROM.
1986 - 1993 - Commerce Clearing House, Design and implementation of an On-line access system.
1978 - 1986 - President and Chief Design Engineer, Infotex, Inc. Designed and implemented large data base system for mini-computer (e.g. Newspaper/publication libraries).
1967 - 1978 - Data Corporation and Mead Data Central (both part of the Mead Corporation). Designed and managed the implementation of the world's first full-text access Technology, interactive data base system; later it became known as LEXIS-NEXIS (See HONORS Section Below).
Prior to 1967 - US Army - see below.

ADDRESSES

	From May through October:		From November through April:
	906 Red Top Drive Libertyville, Il 60048 847-362-7456		2866 NE 30th St, #16 Ft Lauderdale Florida 33306 954-566-2238

HONORS:
-- September, 1967 - Cpt. Giering was awarded the Department of Defense Commendation Medal for Services in support of the Intelligence Analysts at the Defense Intelligence Agency (BIDAP) - see next item.
-- 2004 (January and April) - Mr. Giering was the subject of a two part interview article in a National Magazine (SEARCHER) highlighting his development of the Full-text Access Technology. The technology is curently being used world wide in search engines. The two part article can be found by linking as specified under LEXIS below:
Part One
Part Two

EDUCATION:
High School drop-out with a college Degree.
Attended Valley Forge Military Academy - One year.
1959 - awarded an Army Scholarship to the University of Arizona.
1962 - Earned a BS degree from the Systems Engineering Department, Univ of Arizona.

MEDICAL INFORMATION: Tendency to hypertension and type II diabetic, both under control via medication.

MILITARY: 1947 - Joined the US Army as a Private. Served in various combat Arms Organizations.
Awarded a direct commission, 1958.
Retired in Rank of Captain, 1967.

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH - LEXIS-NEXIS:
    As noted above, I was responsible for the development and implementation of Full-text access technology. The development occurred a decade before the advent of the internet. That technology is the basis of most if not all of the current search engines today. For more details about the activity during the development period, the reader is directed to the reprint of a two part magazine article concerning that period.
Part One covers the pre-development period and covers the main development activity.
Part Two identifies the continued development work and the pre-LEXIS (OBAR) activity
    FIRST A DISCUSSION ON THE FOUNDING OF LEXIS. In late 1972 and early 1973, a business entity was formed as part of the Corporate subsidiary of the Mead Corporation, Mead Data Central. The business was known as LEXIS and was to use the full-text access technology in the pursuit of clients in law firms specifically dealing with their legal research. The business became highly successful and that success is due in great measure to the president, Mr. James Rubin. It must be noted, however, that the business was founded based on the availability of the full-text access technology and without that technology, the business could not have existed.

    THE INTEGRATION OF NEXIS. At the formation of LEXIS, I returned to the development arm, Data Corporation (later to become known as Mead Technology Laboratories - MTL), where the original Information System Division was reconstituted with a copy of the developed full text access technology software (Data Central) as it was developed to that time together with all of the "non-legal" business under contract. The mission was to locate new business ventures based on the\at same technology. The division was not required to show a profit, but could not have a loss - all income was to be used in the pursuit of the new business ventures.
    Many attempts at various business activities were unsuccessful until the middle 1975. At that time a number of sales calls were made to the Librarian at The Boston Globe Newspaper. This culminated in a contract to automate their Newspaper library. In the middle of 1976, they ceased manual clipping of the newspaper for inclusion into their paper archives. They sent, to the MTL Service Bureau, daily electronic tapes containing the electronically equivalent clips of the daily newspaper. The contents of the transmitted data was added to their data base which they used 24 hours a day, seven days a week from color terminals in their library. Terminal use was by members of the editorial staff as well as by the library staff.
    In late 1977 a contract was consummated with The Philadelphia Inquirer for the installation of a copy of Data Central (the Full text Access software) onto their library computer for use in a manner similar to that in being at The Boston Globe. By mid-1978, this contract was in the final stages of implementation, when the Mead Corporation decided to transfer the Newspaper business from MTL to MDC and it became a part of LEXIS. After a contractual re-organization, it became the basis of NEXIS.
    I left Mead as a result.

COMMENTARY:

WHO'S WHO: Listed in a number of Who's Who publications (e.g. Who's Who in Finance and Industry; Who's Who in the Midwest; Who's Who in the United States) from about 1980 through 1990. All listings are approximately the same; the following (abbreviations expanded) is illustrative:

GIERING, RICHARD HERBERT, Computerized information systems company executive; born Emmaus, Pennsylvania, November 27, 1929; son of Harold Augustus and Marguerite (Bruder) Giering; B.S. in Engineering and Mathematics at the University of Arizona, 1962; married Carol Alice Scott, August 16, 1959; children -- Richard H. Jr., Scott K. Joined U.S.Army as a private, 1947, commissioned Second Lieutenant, 1963, advanced through grades to Captain, 1963-1965; section chief data processing Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, 1965-67; retired 1967; with Data Corporation (name changed to Mead Technology Labs, 1968), Dayton, Ohio, 1967--, vice president technical operations, 1970-71, director Information Systems, 1971--. Inventor of (DATA/CENTRAL), currently being used for establishment of Electronic Newspaper Libraries. Instructor data processing University of Arizona, Tucson, 1962-63. Member Association Computing Machinery, American Society Information Science. Home: 5460 Royalwood Street, Dayton, Ohio 45429. Office: Research Park, Dayton, Ohio 45432.

PHOTOGRAPHS

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The Couple's Wedding, August, 1959	The Wedding Party	Photo of the Principal taken about 1985 for use with a Marquis Who's Who Press Release	Three Generation family portrait (taken June, 1997); Principal and spouse with Grandson Cole Giering in front with Sons Scott (left) and Rick, Jr., back row.	A Family Portrait - Christmas, 1981. Carol in Front and left to right in back: Rick, Dick and Scott

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