Robert Roy Korfhage (December 2, 1930 – November 20, 1998) was an American computer scientist, famous for his contributions to information retrieval and several textbooks.
He was son of Dr. Roy Korfhage who was a chemist at Nestlé in Fulton, Oswego County, New York.
Korfhage earned his bachelor's degree (1952) in engineering mathematics at University of Michigan, while working part-time at United Aircraft and Transport Corporation in East Hartford as programmer.
At the same university, he earned a master's degree and Ph.D. (1962) in mathematics, his PhD dissertation being On Systems of Distinct Representatives for Several Collections of Sets advised by Bernard Galler (1962).
[2] In his later years, he worked on new ways of information visualization and also genetic algorithms to optimize text queries.