Mike Lesk
Name: Michael E. (Mike) Lesk Born: Unknown Computer-related contributions Computer scientist who worked for the SMART Information Retrieval System project. Participated with the group at Bell Labs that developed Unix. Created Unix tools for word processing. Developed lex, a tool for creating lexical compilers in Unix. Introduced the Lesk algorithm, a classical algorithm for word sense disambiguation (1986). Authored the Portable I/O Library (the predecessor to stdio.h in C). Assisted in the development of the C language preprocessor....