Martin H. Frické

Professor Martin Frické spent the early part of his career in the University of Arizona studying logic and librarianship, specifically the use of computers and symbolic logic to organize information. He published a book and several articles on these topics (for example, on Faceted Classification). He also published on Big Data and on the Knowledge Pyramid. Later, his interest moved to blockchains, cryptotechnologies, and torrents, and to how these can be to used support ‘perfect librarianship’. This is librarianship where there is uncensorable, and universal, rapid delivery of authenticated unchangeable permanent documents (librarianship, which if carried through, would confine the nightmares of Orwell’s 1984 to fiction). More recently his attention was drawn to machine learning and the possible impact of large language models on librarianship (models like ChatGPT). In 2023 and 2024, he published editions of the book Artificial Intelligence and Librarianship: Notes for Teaching. These is were open-sourced and available free to all. He has been a computer programmer and developer and has written many programs to assist with instruction (see, for example, https://SoftOption.Us). He has taught networking, human-computer interaction, logic, and web design, as well as the courses in organization of information, research methods and information ethics.