Mike Lesk

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Michael E. Lesk
Born

Michael E. Lesk (born 1945) is an American computer scientist.

Biography

In the 1960s, Michael Lesk worked for the

Chemical Physics in 1969.[2][3]

From 1970 to 1984, Lesk worked at

stdio.h in C) and contributed significantly to the development of the C language preprocessor.[4]

In 1984, he left to work for

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). In the 1990s, Lesk worked on a large chemical information system, the CORE project, with
. From 1998 to 2002, Lesk headed the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, where he oversaw Phase 2 of the NSF's Digital Library Initiative. He was a professor on the faculty of the Library and Information Science Department, School of Communication & Information, Rutgers University, from 2003 to 2023.[3][5][6]

Lesk received the Flame award for lifetime achievement from

Usenix in 1994, is a Fellow of the ACM in 1996,[1] and in 2005 was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.[7] He has authored a number of books.[8]

See also

Bibliography

Selected books by Michael Lesk:[8]

  • Practical Digital Libraries: Books, Bytes, and Bucks, 1997. .
  • Understanding Digital Libraries, 2nd ed., December 2004. .

References

  1. ^ a b "Michael E Lesk: ACM Fellows". ACM. 1996. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Michael Lesk's Grade Crossing on the Information Superhighway". lesk.com. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Michael E. Lesk" (PDF). Rutgers University. 8 June 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-12-10. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  4. ^ Dennis M. Ritchie (1993). "The Development of the C Language". Association for Computing Machinery. Archived from the original on 1998-02-20. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
  5. ^ "Michael Lesk". Rutgers University. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Michael Lesk, Who Helped Build the Computer Operating System Unix, Transitions to Professor Emeritus". iSchools. Retrieved 9 November 2023.
  7. ^ "Michael Lesk: Rutgers University". nationalacademies.org. National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  8. ^
    Amazon.co.uk
    . Retrieved 9 December 2017.