Calvin C. Gotlieb
C.M., M.A., PH.D.

Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Achievement: "Father of Computing" in Canada

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Professor Gotlieb has been at the forefront of the development of Computer Science and the use of computing technology in Canada for 45 years.

His work with computational science (based on calculators at the time) began in 1945, immediateley after he returned to the University of Toronto from wartime service in which he worked on the calculation of ballistic trajectories. He was part of the first team in Canada assembled in 1948 to design and contruct digital computers and to provide computing services. He also co-founed the first department of Computer Science in Canada at the University of Toronto in 1948, originating many courses and later, introducing graduate courses.

Professor Gotlieb was a driving force behind Canada's first conference on computing and a founding member of CIPS in 1958 where he worked to welcome the presence of business. He served as Canada's representative at the founding meeting of IFIP in 1959 as an effort to promote international cooperation in information processing and continued in that role until 1966. He has been involved in the cutting edge of technology - from the first purchase of an electronic computer in Canada (second anywhere) to the 1984 acquisition of a Cray XMP supercomuter. Professor Gotlieb is a member of the Editor Advisory Board of Encyclopedia Britannica and of the Annals of the History of Computing.

Honours: Order of Canada Isaac L. Auerbach Medal, International Federation of Information Processing Societies. Honorary member of CIPS IFIP's Silver Core Award.