E. Mark Gold

E. Mark Gold (often written "E Mark Gold" without a dot,       born 1936 in Los Angeles)  is an American physicist, mathematician, and computer scientist. He became well known for his article Language identification in the limit which pioneered a formal model for inductive inference of formal languages, mainly by computers. Since 1999, an award of the conference on Algorithmic learning theory is named after him.

Academic education
In 1956, he got a B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology, in 1958, he got a M.S. in physics from Princeton University. In Jan 1965, got his Ph.D. from UCLA, supervised by Abraham Robinson.

Scientific career
In 1962 and 1963, he worked at Unified Science Associates, Pasadena, on physics problems. About in 1963, he turned to mathematics, working for Lear Siegler, the RAND Corporation, Stanford University, the Institute for Formal Studies, Los Angeles, and the Oregon Research Institute. About in 1973, he moved to Montreal University and about 1977 to Rochester University. In 1991, he published from Oakland.