# Gordon V. Cormack

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G. V. Cormack (gvcormack@uwaterloo.ca)

# Gordon V. Cormack

### [Professor Emeritus](http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/cv.html) [David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science](http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/) [University of Waterloo](http://www.uwaterloo.ca)

*2502 Davis Centre
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University of Waterloo
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Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
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Canada

tel: (519) 888 4567 (34450)
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fax: (519) 885 1208

[gvcormack@uwaterloo.ca](mailto:gvcormack@uwaterloo.ca)*

[In memoriam: Douglas Villy Cormack 1926 - 2024](https://cormack.uwaterloo.ca/dvcormack.pdf)

**My comments on Covid-19 misinformation spread by a handful of my colleagues:** [covidargument.pdf](https://cormack.uwaterloo.ca/covidargument.pdf).
See also [The absurdity of death estimates from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)](https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.04204)

My current research involves high-stakes information retrieval, in which demonstrating
the reliability and thoroughness of retrieval methods is of primary importance.
A specific instance of high-stakes information retrieval is [technology-assisted review (TAR)](https://cormack.uwaterloo.ca/jolt)
for electronic discovery in [legal matters](http://cormack.uwaterloo.ca/CITES.html).
My past research has involved programming languages, compilers,
data structures, concurrency, and distributed computing.
Here is a [list of my publications](http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/PAPERSx.html).

I'm a member of the program committee for the [Text Retrieval Conference (TREC)](http://trec.nist.gov/), coordinator of the [TREC Total Recall Track](http://trec-total-recall.org), past coordinator of the TREC [Legal Track](http://trec-legal.umiacs.umd.edu/) and [Spam Track](http://trec.nist.gov/data/spam.html).

For twelve years I was coach of Waterloo's ACM International Collegiate Programming
Contest team, qualifying for the World Finals every year, winning one [World Championship](https://icpc.baylor.edu/community/history-icpc-1999), and two [North](https://icpc.baylor.edu/community/results-1998)
[American](https://icpc.baylor.edu/community/results-2000) Championships.
For six years I served as a member of the International Scientific Committee of The
International Olympiad for Informatics, and served as Scientific Director when Canada
hosted [IOI '2010](http://www.ioi2010.org/) in Waterloo.