Gordon Cormack
Encyclopedia
Gordon V. Cormack is a computer science professor at the University of Waterloo
and co-inventor of Dynamic Markov Compression
. He is the president of the Conference on Email and Anti-Spam
2007 and is the coordinator of the TREC
Spam Evaluation Track. Cormack coaches Waterloo's ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
team.
University of Waterloo
The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff...
and co-inventor of Dynamic Markov Compression
Dynamic Markov compression
Dynamic Markov compression is a lossless data compression algorithm developed by Gordon Cormack and Nigel Horspool . It uses predictive arithmetic coding similar to prediction by partial matching , except that the input is predicted one bit at a time...
. He is the president of the Conference on Email and Anti-Spam
Conference on Email and Anti-Spam
The Conference on Email and Anti-Spam is an annual scientific conference sponsored by Microsoft on subjects relating to email use and abuse . The CEAS hosts a concurrent open competition for spam filters known as the CEAS Live Spam Filter Challenge.The first conference was held on July 30-31, 2004...
2007 and is the coordinator of the TREC
TREC
TREC may refer to:* Techniques de Randonnée Équestre de Compétition or Trec, an equestrian discipline* Text REtrieval Conference, an on-going series of workshops co-sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S...
Spam Evaluation Track. Cormack coaches Waterloo's ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest is an annual multi-tiered computer programming competition among the universities of the world. The contest is sponsored by IBM. Headquartered at Baylor University, with autonomous regions on six continents, the ICPC is directed by Baylor Professor...
team.