Can we draw the following hypothesis from the context?

Context:

Gerard A. "Gerry" Salton (8 March 1927 in Nuremberg 28 August 1995), was a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. Salton was perhaps the leading computer scientist working in the field of information retrieval during his time, and "the father of information retrieval". His group at Cornell developed the SMART Information Retrieval System, which he initiated when he was at Harvard.

Hypothesis: Gerry Salton was 5 years shy of living to see the year 2000
Yes