Gordon Cormack

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::summary Canadian computer scientist ::

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Field	Value
name	Gordon Cormack
image	Professor Emeritus Gordon Cormack.jpg
caption	Professor Emeritus Gordon Cormack
nationality	Canadian
workplaces	Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
known_for	Programming languages, big data structures, information retrieval
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| name = Gordon Cormack | image = Professor Emeritus Gordon Cormack.jpg | caption = Professor Emeritus Gordon Cormack | nationality = Canadian | workplaces = Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo | known_for = Programming languages, big data structures, information retrieval

Gordon Villy Cormack is a professor emeritus in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo and co-inventor of Dynamic Markov Compression.

Cormack's research with Maura R. Grossman has been cited in cases of first impression in United States, Ireland, and (by reference) United Kingdom approving the use of technology-assisted review in civil litigation.

Since 2001, he has been a program committee member of The Text Retrieval Conference (TREC). He was a coordinator of the TREC Total Recall Track (2015 - 2016), as well as the TREC Legal Track (2010 - 2011), and the TREC Spam Track (2005 - 2007). Cormack is past president of the Conference on Email and Anti-Spam.

From 1997 through 2010, Cormack coached Waterloo's ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest team, qualifying for the World Finals every year, winning the World Championship in 1999, and the North American Championship in 1998 and 2000.

Cormack was a member of the International Olympiad in Informatics Scientific Committee from 2004 - 2011 and was the scientific director of IOI 2010 in Waterloo, Ontario.

Cormack received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in computer science from University of Manitoba in 1977, 1978, and 1981, and was a faculty member in the McGill University School of Computer Science (1981 - 1983) before joining University of Waterloo in 1983.

References

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