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Gordon Villy Cormack is a professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the
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and co-inventor of Dynamic Markov Compression. Cormack's research with Maura R. Grossman has been cited in cases of first impression in
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, and (by reference)
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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 The ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest, known as the ICPC, is an annual multi-tiered competitive programming competition among the universities of the world. Directed by ICPC Executive Director and Baylor Professor Dr. William B. ...
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
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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
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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
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in 1983.


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