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Biographical Data:

Name: Godfried Theodore Toussaint
Date of birth: July 31, 1944
Place of birth: Tremeloo (near Mechelen), Brabant, Belgium
Citizenship: Canadian, British, Belgian
Languages spoken and written: English, Spanish, French
Languages largely forgotten: Portuguese, Indonesian, Flemish (mother tongue)
Professor: School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, since 1972.
Researcher: The Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology, Schulich School of Music, McGill University, since February 2005.

Main Present Professional Positions:

Editor, Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
Editor, Forma
Associate Editor, International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications
Editorial Board Member, Revista Investigacion Operacional
Advisory Board Member, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Main Past Professional Positions:

Editor, Discrete and Computational Geometry
Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition
Editorial Board Member, The Visual Computer
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Conferences and Workshops Founded and Organized:

Co-Founder (with David Dobkin, Joseph O'Rourke and Franco Preparata), ACM Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry. The first symposium was held in Baltimore, 5-7, June 1985.
Co-Founder (with David Avis), Annual Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry. Organized the first and tenth conferences at McGill University in Montreal in August 1989 and August 1998, respectively.
Founder and Organiser, Annual Bellairs Winter Workshop on Computational Geometry. The first workshop was held at Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University in Barbados, February 1986.
Co-Founder (with Antonio Mesa) Cuban Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, The first workshop was held at Universidad de La Habana, Cuba, May 2001, the second was held in the same place in April 2003, and the third in April 2004.
Co-Founder (with Francisco Gomez) International Workshop on Computational Music Theory, The first workshop was held at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Escuela Universitaria de Informatica, Madrid, Spain, July 2003. The second was held at the same location in June 2004. The third was held at the same location June 13-17 2005. The fourth is scheduled for July 24-28, 2006.

Honors and Awards:

Pioneer of Computing in Canada. Honor bestowed at CASCON Banquet in Toronto, October 19, 2005. See list of all pioneers. See group photo.
David Thomson Award for excellence in Graduate Supervision and Teaching at McGill University, June 8, 2001. Photo and quotation in the McGill Reporter. Award citation at the Faculty of Science Convocation on the morning of June 8, 2001. Plaque presentation at the Faculty of Graduate Studies Council meeting on the afternoon of June 8, 2001.
Distinguished Service Award for "outstanding contribution to research and education in Computational Geometry," CIPPRS, May 1996, Award ceremony at banquet of Vision Interface `96 in Toronto.
Vice-Chancellor's Research Best-Practice Fellowship, October 1995, University of Newcastle, Australia, 1995.
Editorial Service Award, Pattern Recognition Society, 1993.
ASI Fellowship from the B.C. Advanced Systems Institute (1988).
Killam Senior Research Fellowship from the Canada Council for the Arts (1985-87)
Outstanding Paper Certificate awarded in 1980 by the Pattern Recognition Society for the manuscript: G.T. Toussaint, "The relative neighborhood graph of a finite planar set," Pattern Recognition, Vol. 12, 1980, pp. 261-268.
Best-Paper-of-the-Year Award from the Pattern Recognition Society for the manuscript: G.T.Toussaint," The use of context in pattern recognition," Pattern Recognition, Vol. 10, 1978, pp. 189-204.

University Education:

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia, 1972. Thesis: Feature Evaluation Criteria and Contextual Decoding Algorithms in Statistical Pattern Recognition. Supervisor: Robert W. Donaldson, External Examiner: Keinosuke Fukunaga .
M.A.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C., 1970. Thesis: Machine Recognition of Independent and Contextually Constrained Contour-Traced Handprinted Characters. Supervisor: Robert W. Donaldson.
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A.,1968. Senior Thesis: Threshold Logic Network Synthesis. Supervisor: Harold Smith.

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