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He received a Bachelor of Science in physics in 1942, a Master of Arts in 1944 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1947 from the University of Toronto.
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Calvin Gotlieb
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He is Professor Emeritus in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. In 1948, he co-founded the computation centre at the University of Toronto and was part of the first team in Canada to build computers and to provide computing services. In 1950, he created the first university course on computing in Canada and in 1951 offered the first graduate course.
In 1964, he helped to found the first Canadian graduate department of computer science at the University of Toronto.
In 1958, he helped to found the Canadian Information Processing Society and was its president from 1960 to 1961. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and in 2006, a founding Fellow of the Canadian Information Processing Society.
They have three children, son Leo Gotlieb, daughters Margaret Gotlieb and Jane Lipson.
