Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email
Answers.com

Steve Lawrence

 
Actor: Steve Lawrence
  • Born: Jul 08, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '70s-2000s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Crime
  • Career Highlights: The Lonely Guy
  • First Major Screen Credit: The Lonely Guy (1984)

Biography

A veteran of films, television, and the Las Vegas stage, musician Steve Lawrence is probably most recognizable to film audiences as The Blues Brothers' Maury Sline. Born Sidney Leibowitz in Brooklyn, New York, on July 8, 1935, Lawrence began writing music at the age of 16 and broke into television as a performer on Steve Allen's Tonight Show in the mid-'50s. A fixture of various TV variety shows throughout the '60s, including The Carol Burnett Show, Lawrence entered the realm of film cult stardom with his role in The Blues Brothers (1980), and went on to do sporadic screen work for the next couple of decades. In addition to supporting roles in Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), the boxing drama Play It to the Bone (2000), and the crime mystery The Yards, Lawrence had a recurring role on the TV sitcom The Nanny. Along with his wife Eydie Gorme, whom he married in 1957, Lawrence was a fixture of the Las Vegas stage for a long time, where he and Gorme often performed as the supporting act for Frank Sinatra. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
Search unanswered questions...
Enter a question here...
Search: All sources Community Q&A Reference topics
Wikipedia: Steve Lawrence (computer scientist)
Top

Dr. Steve Lawrence was among the group at NEC Research which was responsible for the creation of the Search Engine/Digital Library CiteSeer. He is currently an employee at Google.

Lawrence received bachelor of science and bachelor of engineering degrees from Queensland University of Technology in Australia, and his PhD from the University of Queensland in Australia.

He became a Senior Research Scientist at NEC Research Institute.

He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at Google.

Dr. Lawrence's professional service includes being program committee co-chair for WWW 2003, program committee vice chair for WWW 2002, co-chair for workshops at AAAI and WWW, a program committee member for conferences including WWW, CIKM, and NIPS, and a reviewer for many journals including Science and Nature.

Dr. Lawrence's research interests include information retrieval, digital libraries, and machine learning. He has published over 50 papers in these areas, including articles in Science, Nature, CACM, and IEEE Computer. He has been interviewed by over 100 news organizations including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reuters, Associated Press, CNN, MSNBC, the BBC, and NPR. Hundreds of articles about his research have appeared worldwide in over 10 different languages.

Awards and honors

  • NEC Research Institute Excellence awards
  • NEC Research Impact awards
  • Queensland University of Technology university medal and award for excellence
  • ATERB scholarship
  • APRA priority scholarship,
  • Technology NJ Internet Innovator award
  • QEC and Telecom Australia Engineering prizes,
  • Three prizes in the Australian Mathematics Competition.

External links



 
 
Learn More
Sings of Love and Sad Young Men/Portrait of Steve (2002 Album by Steve Lawrence)
Songs by Steve Lawrence (1995 Album by Steve Lawrence)
Two on the Aisle/Together on Broadway (2002 Album by Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme)

Who is Segye Lawrence? Read answer...
What does lawrence means? Read answer...
Who is Lawrence Parry? Read answer...

Help us answer these
How do you contact steve lawrence and eydie gorme?
What album by steve lawrence contains the song where can i go?
What is steve lawrence's e mail address?

Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:

 

Copyrights:

Actor. Copyright © 2009 All Media Guide, LLC. All rights reserved.  Read more
Wikipedia. This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Steve Lawrence (computer scientist)" Read more

 

Mentioned in