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Gordon Cormack

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Professor EmeritusDavid R. Cheriton School of Computer ScienceUniversity of Waterloo

Gordon Cormack

Professor Emeritus

David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

University of Waterloo

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Emeritus professors are retired and rarely take new students.
No publications on record.
Principal investigator on 6 research grants (6 NSERC), most recently in 2011.

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Latest funding

Apparatus for High-Recall Information Retrieval
CFI · 2017 · Co-investigator
$67,832
User behavior models for information access evaluation
NSERC · 2014 · Co-investigator
$179,691
High-performance multiprocessor servers for programming languages and information retrieval research groups
NSERC · 2011 · Co-investigator
$74,500

All 13 grants and awards

Apparatus for High-Recall Information Retrieval

Co-investigatorCFI2017John R. Evans Leaders Fund: John R. Evans Leaders Fund – Funding for research infrastructure

Principal investigators: Grossman, Maura

Keywords: information retrieval, filtering, high recall, real time, privacy preserving, technology-assisted review, systematic review, information governance A family of two high-capacity and seven self-contained servers

$67,832

User behavior models for information access evaluation

Co-investigatorNSERC2014Collaborative Research and Development Grants

Principal investigators: Smucker, Mark

$179,691

High-performance multiprocessor servers for programming languages and information retrieval research groups

Co-investigatorNSERC2011Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Buhr, Peter

$74,500

Evaluation and improvement of search tools for critical information

Principal investigatorNSERC2011Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Cormack, Gordon

$96,000

Update server and cluster computers for programming languages and information retrieval research groups

Co-investigatorNSERC2006Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Buhr, Peter

$92,374

Systems for information discovery, navigation adn classification

Principal investigatorNSERC2005Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Cormack, Gordon

$160,000

Bioinformatics research equipment grant

Co-investigatorNSERC2000Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Kearney, Paul

$38,803

Distributed associative information systems

Principal investigatorNSERC2000Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Cormack, Gordon

$150,000

Replacement of existing compute server to support research programs

Co-investigatorNSERC1998Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Buhr, Peter

$46,083

Programming languages, compliers and development environments

Principal investigatorNSERC1993Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Cormack, Gordon

$156,790

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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