Everything about Gaston Gonnet totally explained
Gaston H. Gonnet is a
Uruguayan computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is best known for his contributions to the
Maple computer algebra system and the creation of an electronic version of the
Oxford 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 was
J. 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 (with
Keith Geddes) the private company
Waterloo 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 in
Zurich,
Switzerland. He is also Chief Scientist at Aruna Solutions.
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