birth_place nationality birth_date article_title education name
detroit , michigan , usa american 1930 roger k. summit
 stanford university roger k. summit
roger k. summit

roger k. summit -lrb- born 1930 - detroit , michigan -rrb- is the founder of dialog information services , and has been called the father of modern online search .
he worked for lockheed in the 1960s , was put in charge of its information retrieval lab , and from his work created a system that became known as dialog and spun off by lockheed in the 1970s .
dialog is one of the leading professional online services , used by companies , law firms , governments etc. as a key online research tool .
many feel that dialog led the way to the web 's search engines and what we call search today .
