Douglass Stott Parker (December 31, 1952 – October 4, 2022) was a professor of computer science at UCLA from 1979 to his retirement in 2016, specializing in Data Mining, Bioinformatics, Database Management, Scientific Data Management and Modeling.[1]
D. Stott Parker Jr. | |
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| Born | December 31, 1952 New Haven, Connecticut |
| Died | October 4, 2022 (aged 69) Eugene, Oregon |
| Alma mater | Princeton University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science, Data Mining |
| Doctoral advisor | David Kuck |
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Parker was an investigator in the UCLA Center for Computational Biology (an NIH NCBC center), the UCLA Center for Cognitive Phenomics (an NIH project), and worked with Chris Lee on bioinformatics databases.
Biography
editParker was born in New Haven, Connecticut, to Haverly Hubert Parker and classics professor Douglass Stott Parker, Sr.[1] He received the A.B. in Mathematics cum laude from Princeton University in 1974. He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1976 and 1978, respectively. Following a period of postdoctoral research at the Universite de Grenoble in France he joined the Faculty of the UCLA Computer Science Department in 1979.
References
edit- ^ a b "In Memoriam: Douglass Stott Parker Jr., Professor Emeritus of Computer Science". University of California, Los Angeles. November 15, 2022.
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