Gordon V. Cormack is a professor emeritus in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. He is the co-inventor of Dynamic Markov Compression (DMC) and Continuous Active Learning® (CAL®) for electronic discovery and systematic review. Dr. Cormack’s research with Maura R. Grossman has been cited in cases of first impression in the US, Ireland, and (by reference) in the UK and Singapore, approving the use of technology-assisted review (TAR) in civil litigation. For over a decade, Dr. Cormack was a program committee member of The Text Retrieval Conference (TREC). He was a coordinator of the Total Recall Track (2015 - 2016), the Legal Track (2010 - 2011), and the Spam Track (2005 - 2007). Dr. Cormack is past president of the Conference on Email and Anti-Spam. From 1997 – 2010, Dr. Cormack coached Waterloo’s ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest team, qualifying for the World Finals each year, winning the World Championship in 1999, and the North American Championship in 1998 and 2000. Dr. Cormack was a member of the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) Scientific Committee from 2004 – 2011 and was the scientific director of IOI 2010. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Manitoba in 1977, 1978, and 1981, respectively, and was a faculty member in the McGill University School of Computer Science (1981 - 1983) before joining Waterloo in 1983. Dr. Cormack has authored or co-authored more than 100 scientific publications, including the advanced textbook, Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines (MIT Press, 2010).
