Gordon Villy Cormack is a professor emeritus in the
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the
University of Waterloo
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and co-inventor of
Dynamic Markov Compression Dynamic Markov compression (DMC) is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Gordon Cormack and Nigel Horspool.Gordon Cormack and Nigel Horspool, "Data Compression using Dynamic Markov Modelling", Computer Journal 30:6 (December 1987) It ...
.
Cormack's research with
Maura R. Grossman has been cited in
cases of first impression in
United States
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,
Ireland
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, and (by reference)
United Kingdom
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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
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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
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Scientific Committee from 2004 - 2011
[International Olympiad in Informatics]
Former Members of ISC
Retrieved August 19, 2016 and was the scientific director of IOI 2010 in
Waterloo, Ontario
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.
Cormack received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in computer science from
University of Manitoba
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in 1977, 1978, and 1981, and was a faculty member in the
McGill University School of Computer Science
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(1981 - 1983) before joining
University of Waterloo
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in 1983.
See also
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List of University of Waterloo people
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References
External links
Cormack's homepage
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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Canadian academics