Gordon V. Cormack

Professor
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo

cormack@cormack.uwaterloo.ca

My research interests are in programming languages, compilers, concurrency, and information storage and retrieval. I am particularly interested in: declarative tools for translation, like parser and attribute grammar generators; type systems and their role in programming-in-the-large; data compression and text processing; notations and architectural support for distributed systems. I'm coach of Waterloo's ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest team.

I'm president of CEAS:

To my American Friends

I believe it is also wrong to remain silent on this matter. Or to argue that nothing can be done or it's not my problem as an excuse for silence. I state my position publicly and implore you also to do so.

Some Other Things than Involve Me

• Prototype open-source TREC Spam Filter Evaluation Kit.
• A Study of Supervised Spam Detection Applied to Eight Months of Personal Email
• My talk at The 2005 Spam Conference.

• Switch to Linux on your Laptop!

• Publications
• Theses supervised

• MultiText
  • Search the Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

• TREC - The Text REtrieval Conference

• Programming Languages Group
• Advanced Database Research Group
• CITO - Communications and Information Technology Ontario
• Researchers in programming languages and compilers
• Researchers in attribute grammars
• Compression Pointers
• The Data Compression Library

• ACM International Programming Contest (for university students)

  • Waterloo holds local programming contests every term.

  • Waterloo's team for the 2000 world finals
    • 2nd place and North American Champions
    • Canadian Business article and pictures
  • We are the 1999 World Champions!
    • Photos.
    • K-W Record article.
    • Computer World Canada article. Final standings.
  • Waterloo Hosts 1998 ACM Regional Programming Contest (1st and 5th place)
    • Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Nov. 16, 1998: page 1, page 2.
  • Waterloo's team at the 1998 world finals
    • 3rd place and North American Champions
  • Waterloo's A team at the 1997/98 East Central Regional Contest(1st place)
  • Waterloo's B team at the 1997/98 East Central Regional Contest(3rd place)
  • Waterloo's team at the 1997 world finals (5th place)
  • Waterloo's team at the 1996 world finals (3rd place)
  • 1993-2002 World Final Results (Waterloo: 7th, 1st, 10th, 3rd, 5th, 3rd, 1st, 2nd, 4th, 3rd)

• The Canadian Computing Competition (for high school students)
• International Olympiad in Informatics (for high school students)

• IPSC - The Internet Problem Solving Contest (open)

• The weather in Waterloo
• Are CS labs too time-consuming?