Gaston Gonnet

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Gaston Gonnet
Scientific computation
Computer algebra
Machine learning[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Waterloo, ETH Zurich
Doctoral advisorJ. Alan George
Doctoral studentsRicardo Baeza-Yates
Christophe Dessimoz[2]
Websitewww.inf.ethz.ch/personal/gonnet

Gaston H. Gonnet is a

Maple computer algebra system[3] and the creation of a digital version of the Oxford English Dictionary.[4][5][6]

Education and early life

Gonnet received his doctorate in computer science from the University of Waterloo in 1977. His thesis was entitled Interpolation and Interpolation-Hash Searching. His advisor was J. Alan George.[7]

Career and research

In 1980 Gonnet co-founded the Symbolic Computation Group at the University of Waterloo.[3] The work of SCG on a general-purpose computer algebra system later formed the core of the Maple system. In 1988, Gonnet co-founded (with Keith Geddes) the private company Waterloo Maple Inc., to sell Maple commercially.[3] In the mid-1990s the company ran into trouble and a disagreement between his colleagues caused him to withdraw from chairing of the board and managerial involvement.

In 1984 Gonnet co-founded the New Oxford English Dictionary project at the University of Waterloo, which sought to create a searchable electronic version of the

Open Text Corporation
. Gonnet was founder and chairman of the Board of OTC until 1994.

Gonnet is a computer science professor at

Zurich, Switzerland.[8] In 1991, he began developing the Darwin programming language for biosciences,[9] which would become the basis for OMA,[10]
a package and database for gene orthology prediction. He is chief scientist of two Canadian startups: CeeqIT and Porfiau.

Awards and honours

On June 9, 2011, Gonnet and Keith O. Geddes received the ACM Richard D. Jenks Memorial Prize for Excellence in Software Engineering Applied to Computer Algebra for the Maple Project.

On March 14, 2013, Gonnet was awarded a Dr. Honoris Causa by the

Universidad de la República, engineering faculty from Uruguay.[citation needed
]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Gaston Gonnet publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. OCLC 935351416. Open access icon
  3. ^ a b c Haigh, Thomas (2005), Gaston Gonnet Oral history interview, 16–18 March, 2005, Zurich, Switzerland, Philadelphia, PA: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  4. ^ Murphy, Cullen (February 1, 1989), "Caught in the Web of bytes: the electronic Oxford English Dictionary", The Atlantic, archived from the original on June 10, 2014.
  5. ^ Interpolation and Interpolation-Hash Searching
  6. ^ Publications and talks in Research Gate
  7. ^ Gaston Gonnet at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  8. ^ Faculty listing, ETHZ, retrieved 2013-02-14.
  9. S2CID 1531041
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  10. ^ "About OMA". Retrieved 2017-11-10.
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