University of Waterloo
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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 TRE Total Recall Track (2015 - 2016), as well as th (2010 - 2011), and th (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 - 2011International Olympiad in Informatics Former Members of ISC Retrieved August 19, 2016 and was the scientific director o 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
The University of Manitoba (U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a Canadian public research university in the province of Manitoba.McGill University School of Computer Science (1981 - 1983) before joining
University of Waterloo
The University of Waterloo (UWaterloo, UW, or Waterloo) is a public research university with a main campus in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is on of land adjacent to "Uptown" Waterloo and Waterloo Park. The university also operates ...
in 1983.
See also
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List of University of Waterloo people
The University of Waterloo, located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, is a comprehensive public university that was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles. It has grown into an institution of more than 42,000 students, faculty, and ...