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Jerome Rubin, helped forge LexisNexis, dies at 86

By Cristian Salazar

 |  Associated Press  

  January 14, 2012

Jerome Rubin, who helped bring to market the commercial online research database today known as LexisNexis and the display technology behind millions of Amazon Kindles and other e-readers, has died in New York. He was 86. Mr. Rubin was trained as a physicist and attorney, but in the 1970s was hired by an Ohio-based company to make commercially viable what was then a novel product - a computer “search and retrieval system’’ or database of state case law.

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