- Gaston Gonnet
Gaston H. Gonnet is a
Uruguay ancomputer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for his contributions to theMaple computer algebra system and the creation of an electronic version of theOxford English Dictionary .Education and professional 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 wasJ. Alan George .In 1980 Gonnet co-founded the Symbolic Computation Group at UW. The work of SCG on a general-purpose
computer algebra system later formed the core of the Maple system. In 1988, Gonnet co-founded (withKeith Geddes ) the private companyWaterloo Maple Inc., to sell Maple commercially.In 1984 Gonnet co-founded the New Oxford English Dictionary project at UW, which sought to create a searchable electronic version of the OED. This project later culminated in another successful commercial venture, the
Open Text Corporation .Gonnet is presently a professor at
ETH Zurich inZurich ,Switzerland . He is also Chief Scientist at Aruna Solutions.External links
* [http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/gonnet/ Personal page at ETH Zurich]
* [http://history.siam.org/oralhistories/gonnet.htm Interview with Gaston Gonnet] , SIAM History of Numerical Analysis and Computing, March 16, 2005
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