Calvin Gotlieb

Calvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb (March 27, 1921 to October 16, 2016) was a Canadian computer scientist born and raised in Toronto, widely called the father of computing in Canada. After earning a bachelor of science in physics in 1942, a master of arts in 1944 and a PhD in 1947, all from the University of Toronto, he co-founded the university's Computation Centre in 1948, created Canada's first university computing course in 1950 and its first graduate computing course in 1951, and helped establish Canada's first graduate computer science department at the University of Toronto in 1964. He co-founded the Canadian Information Processing Society in 1958 and served as its president from 1960 to 1961. He was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1994, made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1995, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and named a founding Fellow of the Canadian Information Processing Society in 2006. He was married to the science fiction novelist Phyllis Gotlieb.