E. Mark Gold

E. Mark Gold (often written "E Mark Gold" without a dot,^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]} born 1936 in Los Angeles)^[9]: vi is an American physicist, mathematician, and computer scientist. He became well known for his article Language identification in the limit^[10][2] which pioneered a formal model for inductive inference of formal languages, mainly by computers. Since 1999, an award of the conference on algorithmic learning theory is named after him.^[11][12]

Academic education

In 1956, he got a B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology, in 1958, he got a M.S. in physics from Princeton University.^[9]: vi In Jan 1965, got his Ph.D. from UCLA, supervised by Abraham Robinson.^{[13][9]: i [14][3]: 403}

Scientific career

In 1962 and 1963, he worked at Unified Science Associates, Pasadena, on physics problems.^{[15][16]: 695 [17]} About in 1963, he turned to mathematics,^[16]: 695 working for Lear Siegler,^{[16]: 695 [18]: 48 [3]: 395} the RAND Corporation,^{[10][2]: 447} Stanford University,^[1] the Institute for Formal Studies, Los Angeles,^[2]: 447 and the Oregon Research Institute.^[19]: 731 About in 1973, he moved to Montreal University^{[20]: 621 [19]: 731 [4][5][6][7]: 302 [21]: 320} and about 1977 to University of Rochester.^{[22]: 151 [7]: 302} In 1991, he published from Oakland.^[8]: 25