{"id":10203,"date":"2022-07-02T18:39:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T18:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cscan.webix.ca\/?page_id=10203"},"modified":"2024-12-18T09:37:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T14:37:10","slug":"w-morven-gentleman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cscan-infocan.ca\/fr\/w-morven-gentleman\/","title":{"rendered":"W. Morven Gentleman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"10203\" class=\"elementor elementor-10203\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-36076da6 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"36076da6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2e779656 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2e779656\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c6a524a e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3c6a524a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31aa6a82 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"31aa6a82\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7b38a7ce elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7b38a7ce\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">W. Morven Gentleman\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3fd30219 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"3fd30219\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d1b8c2f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d1b8c2f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>W. Morven Gentleman (1942 - 2018) a apport\u00e9 de nombreuses contributions remarquables et durables au domaine de l'informatique au cours de sa longue carri\u00e8re en tant que membre de la facult\u00e9 d'informatique du Canada et chercheur aupr\u00e8s du gouvernement et de l'industrie, notamment des contributions fondamentales aux domaines du calcul num\u00e9rique et statistique et au domaine du g\u00e9nie logiciel. Tous ses travaux \u00e9taient caract\u00e9ris\u00e9s par une attention particuli\u00e8re port\u00e9e aux d\u00e9tails pratiques et th\u00e9oriques n\u00e9cessaires \u00e0 la mise en \u0153uvre de nouvelles id\u00e9es.<\/p><p>Sa vision initiale, qui consistait \u00e0 faire du Math Faculty Computing Facility (MFCF) une installation de pointe pour soutenir l'enseignement, la recherche et les activit\u00e9s de d\u00e9veloppement de logiciels pertinents pour l'industrie \u00e0 l'universit\u00e9 de Waterloo, \u00e9tait unique \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque.  La MFCF a contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 faire de Waterloo le meilleur programme de premier cycle au Canada dans les ann\u00e9es 1970 et au d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 1980, pla\u00e7ant la barre tr\u00e8s haut pour les autres d\u00e9partements.<\/p><p>Par la suite, M. Gentleman a dirig\u00e9 le Laboratoire de g\u00e9nie logiciel (SEL) du Conseil national de la recherche du Canada (CNRC), cofond\u00e9 le Consortium pour la recherche en g\u00e9nie logiciel (CSER) et dirig\u00e9 le Global Information Networking Institute (GINI) de l'universit\u00e9 Dalhousie, poursuivant ainsi son engagement \u00e0 combler le foss\u00e9 entre la th\u00e9orie et la pratique.<\/p><p>M. Gentleman a occup\u00e9 des postes de professeur \u00e0 temps plein \u00e0 l'universit\u00e9 de Waterloo (1969-1983) et \u00e0 l'universit\u00e9 Dalhousie (2000-2008). Il a \u00e9galement occup\u00e9 des postes de recherche dans l'industrie et le gouvernement aux Bell Telephone Laboratories (1965-1970) et au Conseil national de la recherche du Canada (1983-2000). Au cours de cette p\u00e9riode, il a si\u00e9g\u00e9 \u00e0 de nombreux conseils et comit\u00e9s charg\u00e9s de superviser ou d'examiner les programmes et propositions de recherche canadiens, en particulier les projets universit\u00e9-industrie.<\/p><p>L'interaction parfois subtile entre la th\u00e9orie et la pratique est un th\u00e8me r\u00e9current dans le travail de M. Gentleman, qui associe la d\u00e9couverte de nouvelles techniques fond\u00e9es sur la th\u00e9orie \u00e0 une attention minutieuse et m\u00e9ticuleuse aux petits d\u00e9tails qui, trop souvent, d\u00e9terminent si les connaissances nouvellement acquises peuvent \u00eatre mises en pratique. Son int\u00e9r\u00eat pour les techniques de d\u00e9veloppement de logiciels portables pouvant \u00eatre facilement transf\u00e9r\u00e9s d'une plate-forme \u00e0 l'autre l'a amen\u00e9 \u00e0 s'int\u00e9resser \u00e0 la s\u00e9mantique des techniques de passage de messages envoi-r\u00e9ponse et \u00e0 d'autres abstractions qui simplifient la compr\u00e9hension humaine des syst\u00e8mes logiciels complexes.<\/p><p>Une grande partie des recherches de M. Gentleman ont d\u00e9pass\u00e9 les fronti\u00e8res, telles que le mat\u00e9riel et le logiciel, les diff\u00e9rentes architectures de machines et les diff\u00e9rents langages de programmation. Ses contributions profondes au calcul math\u00e9matique et statistique et aux syst\u00e8mes en temps r\u00e9el ont toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 reconnues comme des contributions significatives au domaine. Son mentorat et son leadership intellectuel \u00e0 l'Universit\u00e9 de Waterloo, par le biais du Math Faculty Computing Facility, et son r\u00f4le ult\u00e9rieur au Laboratoire de g\u00e9nie logiciel du CNRC, puis \u00e0 GINI \u00e0 Dalhousie, ont contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer l'industrie canadienne du logiciel et \u00e0 maintenir des collaborations productives entre les chercheurs des universit\u00e9s et de l'industrie. M. Gentleman m\u00e9rite amplement un prix posthume pour l'ensemble de sa carri\u00e8re.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W. Morven Gentleman Dr. W. Morven Gentleman (1942 \u2013 2018) made many outstanding and sustained contributions to the field of computing over his long career as a Canadian computer science faculty member and government and industrial researcher, including fundamental contributions to the fields of numerical and statistical computation and to the field of software engineering. 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