Paul Alexander Desmond de Maine (October 11, 1924 – May 13, 1999) was a leading figure in the early development of computer-based automatic indexing and information retrieval and one of the founders of academic computer science in the 1960s.
He later moved to Canada where he completed his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of British Columbia.
He finally moved to the United States in 1957 and served as professor at the University of Mississippi from 1960 to 1963.
[1] He also served on the publication committee of the magazine Computer while at Pennsylvania State University.
[4][5] His fields of research included spectroscopy, charge transfer complexes, solution theory, data compression, information retrieval, human-machine interfaces, expert systems and systems for detecting and correcting computational errors.