Frank W Tompa
Frank Tompa is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, where he has served since 1974. His research interests include the design of text management systems suitable for maintaining large reference texts and large, heterogeneous text collections. He has co-authored the book Communicating With XML in addition to more than 70 papers (having over 2900 citations, h-index 24 and i10-index 48, according to Google Scholar) in the areas of database dependency theory, storage structure selection, query processing, materialized view maintenance, text matching, XML processing, information retrieval, structured text conversion, database integration, data retention and security, and text classification. Prof. Tompa served as co-director of the University of Waterloo’s Centre for the New OED and Text Research, through which he worked closely with the Oxford University Press to help computerize the OED. He has served on 15 international program committees over the last 5 years. Prof. Tompa co-founded Open Text Corporation (now headquartered on Frank Tompa Drive); was named a Fellow of the ACM; received Canada’s Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal; was granted a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, by Dalhousie University; and won a Canadian Association of Computer Science Lifetime Achievement Award.
Supervisors: Andries van Dam (ScM) and C. C. Gotlieb (PhD)
Supervisors: Andries van Dam (ScM) and C. C. Gotlieb (PhD)
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