E. Mark Gold (often written "E Mark Gold" without a dot, born 1936 in

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) is an American physicist, mathematician, and computer scientist. He became well known for his article '' Language identification in the limit'' which pioneered a formal model for

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, mainly by computers. Since 1999, an award of the conference on Algorithmic learning theory is named after him.

Academic education

In 1956, he got a B.S. in mathematics from the

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, in 1958, he got a M.S. in physics from

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. In Jan 1965, got his Ph.D. from

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, supervised by

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.Also in the examination committee were John L. Barnes,

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, and Charles B. Tomkins; some of them might have been advisors.

Scientific career

In 1962 and 1963, he worked at Unified Science Associates,

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, on physics problems. About in 1963, he turned to mathematics, working for

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, the

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, the Institute for Formal Studies,

, and the

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. About in 1973, he moved to Montreal University and about 1977 to Rochester University. In 1991, he published from

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References

External links

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