Tompa received his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1974; since then, he has been a faculty member in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo.[5] He served as Chair of the Computer Science Department for two terms, one in the 1990s and one in the 2000s.
In 2012 he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal created "to honour Her Majesty for her service to this country... [and] to honour significant contributions and achievements by Canadians"; more specifically "in light of ... significant contributions to text data and design systems for maintaining large reference texts."[6]
In 2010 he was named an ACM Fellow for his contributions to "text-dominated and semi-structured data management." In 2005, a street in the University of Waterloo's Research and Technology Park was named Frank Tompa Drive to recognize his contributions to both the City of Waterloo and the University of Waterloo.[2][7]
frank, tompa, canadian, american, computer, scientist, nationalitycanadianalma, materbrown, university, 1970, university, toronto, 1974, known, fordata, structures, databasesspousehelen, tompaawardshonorary, degree, dalhousie, university, 2013, queen, elizabet. Frank Tompa is a Canadian American computer scientist Frank TompaNationalityCanadianAlma materBrown University ScB and ScM 1970 University of Toronto Ph D 1974 2 Known forData Structures DatabasesSpouseHelen TompaAwardsHonorary Degree Dalhousie University 2013 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal 2012 Fellow Association for Computing Machinery 2010Scientific careerInstitutionsUniversity of Waterloo University of Toronto Bellcore Stanford University Microsoft Research University of British ColumbiaDoctoral advisorCalvin Gotlieb 1 Websitecs wbr uwaterloo wbr ca wbr fwtompaHe is best known for his contributions to the creation of an electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary 3 work that was further commercialized in the founding of Open Text Corporation 4 Education and professional life editTompa received his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 1974 since then he has been a faculty member in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo 5 He served as Chair of the Computer Science Department for two terms one in the 1990s and one in the 2000s In 2012 he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal created to honour Her Majesty for her service to this country and to honour significant contributions and achievements by Canadians more specifically in light of significant contributions to text data and design systems for maintaining large reference texts 6 In 2010 he was named an ACM Fellow for his contributions to text dominated and semi structured data management In 2005 a street in the University of Waterloo s Research and Technology Park was named Frank Tompa Drive to recognize his contributions to both the City of Waterloo and the University of Waterloo 2 7 See also editList of University of Waterloo peopleReferences edit Frank William Tompa at the Mathematics Genealogy Project a b Atzenbeck Claus July 2011 Interview with Frank Tompa ACM SIGWEB Newsletter 2011 Summer ACM Article no 3 doi 10 1145 1980002 Murphy Cullen February 1 1989 Caught in the Web of bytes the electronic Oxford English Dictionary The Atlantic archived from the original on June 10 2014 Waddell Nick 29 April 2011 Cantech Letter interviews John Shackleton of OpenText Cantech Letter Frank Tompa Managing Virtual Records in Relational Databases Dalhousie University Events Archived from the original on 1 February 2014 Dean s Message University of Waterloo Mathematics December 2012 Archived from the original on 3 March 2013 Frank Tompa Drive Google Maps nbsp nbsp This biography of an American academic is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Frank Tompa amp oldid 1211540670, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
