Frank Tompa

Frank Tompa
Portrait of Distinguished Professor Emeritus Frank Tompa taken in the Davis Centre at the University of Waterloo
NationalityCanadian
Alma materBrown University ScB and ScM (1970), University of Toronto Ph.D. (1974)[2]
Known forData Structures, Databases
SpouseHelen Tompa
AwardsHonorary Degree, Dalhousie University, 2013; Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, 2012; Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery, 2010
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Waterloo, University of Toronto, Bellcore, Stanford University, Microsoft Research, University of British Columbia
Doctoral advisorCalvin Gotlieb[1]
Websitecs.uwaterloo.ca/~fwtompa

Frank Tompa is a Canadian-American computer scientist.

He 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]

  1. ^ Frank William Tompa at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Atzenbeck, Claus (July 2011). "Interview with Frank Tompa". ACM SIGWEB Newsletter. 2011 (Summer). ACM. Article no. 3. doi:10.1145/1980002.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Waddell, Nick (29 April 2011). "Cantech Letter interviews John Shackleton of OpenText". Cantech Letter.