Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu khoa học ngành toán học tạp chí toán học quốc tế đề tài: Against all Odds: The Amazing but Most True Story of Aviezri Fraenkel and his Special Favorite: The Responsa Project or The Multi-Faceted Contributions of Aviezri Fraenkel to Information Retrieval and the Related Areas. | Against all Odds The Amazing but Most True Story of Aviezri Fraenkel and his Special Favorite The Responsa Project or The Multi-Faceted Contributions of Aviezri Fraenkel to Information Retrieval and the Related Areas Yaacov Choueka1 Jerusalem Israel It is for me a great privilege and a great joy to write this short note which should really be a book about the achievements of Aviezri Fraenkel in conceiving building and directing the Responsa Project his special favorite by his own confession see the hrst paragraph on his home page http fraenkel and his many contributions to Information Retrieval and some of its related areas mostly motivated by his ardent desire to assure the success robustness and longevity of the Responsa Project Respor . By asking me in the mid sixties to join the Respor team then in its early stages of formation in order to design and develop the computational-linguistic component of Respor he inadvertently shaped a large part of my academic career in research teaching and consulting and in fact of my entire life for almost 35 years. I was struggling then with my . thesis on the theory of hnite automata with inhnite tapes and trees a then obtuse domain on the borderline of mathematical logic and computer science now a thriving subject of research with applications to automatic verihcation of large software systems . Still he was successful in making me as was the case indeed with him and with all the other major players of Respor researchers programmers rabbis breathe eat and drink Responsa and Full-Text systems for more than twenty years. I shall always be more than grateful to him for giving me the chance and the opportunity to be part of and a few years later lead with his most generous and unselhsh support and advice this most fascinating endeavor which opened new perspectives in among others Judaica and Rabbinic studies. Unlike the case of combinatorial games and number theory items I2 and I3 in this issue one
