Gordon Cormack

Gordon Villy Cormack is a professor emeritus in the <a href="/facts/David_R._Cheriton_School_of_Computer_Science/6Pny1UMm">David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science</a> at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Waterloo/NANSHN5Y">University of Waterloo</a> and co-inventor of <a href="/facts/Dynamic_Markov_Compression/Qt8TVeh2">Dynamic Markov Compression</a>.
Cormack's research with <a href="/facts/Maura_R._Grossman/FhF86jQY">Maura R. Grossman</a> has been cited in <a href="/facts/Case_of_first_impression/2tdUu2Bw">cases of first impression</a> in <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a>, <a href="/facts/Ireland/35vYxXdP">Ireland</a>, and (by reference) <a href="/facts/United_Kingdom/kuPAILt2">United Kingdom</a> approving the use of <a href="/facts/Electronic_discovery/J1HulEb5">technology-assisted review</a> in civil litigation.
Since 2001, he has been a program committee member of <a href="/facts/Text_Retrieval_Conference/XrFgbLQu">The Text Retrieval Conference (TREC)</a>. 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 <a href="/facts/ACM_International_Collegiate_Programming_Contest/2eEAJMfa">ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest</a> 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 <a href="/facts/International_Olympiad_in_Informatics/XW8Sop37">International Olympiad in Informatics</a> Scientific Committee from 2004 - 2011 and was the scientific director of IOI 2010 in <a href="/facts/Waterloo%2c_Ontario/pWzUEmIH">Waterloo, Ontario</a>.
Cormack received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in computer science from <a href="/facts/University_of_Manitoba/hfbeSqly">University of Manitoba</a> in 1977, 1978, and 1981, and was a faculty member in the <a href="/facts/McGill_University_School_of_Computer_Science/W53lH2yk">McGill University School of Computer Science</a> (1981 - 1983) before joining <a href="/facts/University_of_Waterloo/NANSHN5Y">University of Waterloo</a> in 1983.

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