MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
"As We May Think" --
A Celebration of Vannevar Bush's 1945 Vision,
An Examination of What Has Been Accomplished,
and What Remains to Be Done
Thursday, October 12 - Friday, October 13, 1995
Biography
Michael Lesk
After receiving the PhD degree in Chemical Physics in 1969, Michael Lesk
joined the computer science research group at Bell Laboratories, where
he worked until 1984. Since 1984 he has managed the computer science
research group at Bellcore. He is best known for work in electronic
libraries, including the CORE project for chemical information, and
for writing some Unix system utilities including those for table printing
(tbl), lexical analyzers (lex), and inter-system mail (uucp). His other
technical interests include document production and retrieval software,
computer networks, computer languages, and human-computer interfaces.
He has been chair of the Association for Computing Machinery's special
interest groups on Language Analysis and on Information Retrieval. During
1987 he was Senior Visiting Fellow of the British Library, and he is currently
Visiting Professor of Computer Science at University College London.
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Rev. PP Oct 2, 1995.