Stott Parker Explained

D. Stott Parker Jr.
Birth Date:31 December 1952
Birth Place:New Haven, Connecticut
Death Place:Eugene, Oregon
Field:Computer Science, Data Mining
Doctoral Advisor:David Kuck

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]

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

Parker was born in New Haven, Connecticut, to Haverly Hubert Parker and classics professor Douglass Stott Parker, Sr. 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.

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  1. Web site: In Memoriam: Douglass Stott Parker Jr., Professor Emeritus of Computer Science . November 15, 2022 . University of California, Los Angeles.