November 5, 2004
GENERAL INFORMATION
Birth: June 6, 1934, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Family: Married with 2 children
Citizenship: U.S.A.
Education
| 1954 | B.S., Mathematics | Oklahoma State University |
| 1956 | M.S., Mathematics | Oklahoma State University | 1959 | Ph.D., Mathematics | California Institute of Technology |
Professional Experience
| 1959-60 | NRC-NBS Postdoctoral Research Assoc. | National Bureau of Standards |
| 1960-64 | Sr. Research Mathematician | Research Labs, General Motors |
| 1964-89 | Professor | Purdue University |
| 1970-71 | Visiting Professor | Univ. of California, Santa Barbara |
| 1979-80 | Visiting Professor | Math. Res. Center, Univ. of Wisconsin |
| 1983-96 | Head, Dept. of Computer Sciences | Purdue University |
| 1989- | W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Professor | Purdue University | 2000 | Visiting Professor | California Inst. Technology | 2001- | Founder and Scientist | Arxan Technologies |
Professional Memberships, Recognition, and Honors
Association for Computing Machinery, Intl. Soc. Mathematics & Computers in Simulation
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, IEEE Computer Society
IFIP Working Group 2.5 (Numerical Software)
Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Upsilon Pi Epsilon
Great Teachers, Purdue University, 1999
George Forsythe Memorial Lecturer, 1975
National Academy of Engineering, 1994
Sigma Xi Research Achievement Award, 1994
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1972
Fellow, Association of Computing Machinery, 1996
Silver Core, IFIP, 1989
ACM Service Award, Assoc. Comp. Mach., 1985, 1993
American Men and Women in Science
Who's Who in America (also Midwest, World, Education, ...)
Research Interests
Approximation Theory, Numerical Analysis,
Mathematical Software, Scientific Computing,
Problem Solving Environments,
Computational Science,
Computer Security
Author or co-author of 21 books and over 300 articles. Click here for references to recent selected publications .
MAJOR INVITED ADDRESSES AT CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS
International:
1969 - Symposium on Approximation Theory, Lancaster, England
1970 - International Conf. on Approximation Theory, College Park, Maryland
1971 - Dundee Numerical Analysis "Year", Dundee, Scotland
1975 - International Conf. on Approximation, Calgary, Canada
1975 - International Conf. on Approximation, Kalouga, USSR
1977 - London Mathematical Society Conf. Approximation, Durham, England
1978 - IFIP Conf. on Numerical Software, Baden, Austria
1979 - Production and Assessment of Numerical Software, Liverpool, England
1981 - IFIP Conf. on Programming Languages and Numerical Computing, Boulder, CO
1983 - IFIP Conf. on PDE Software, Soderkoping, Sweden
1984 - Academy of Science, People's Republic of China, Beijing, Zian, Shanghai
1985 - IFIP Conf. of Problem Solving Environments, Nice, France
1986 - Supercomputers Conf., Loen, Norway
1987 - Supercomputing Conf., Athens, Greece
1988 - IFIP Conf. on Asynchronous Computing, Stanford, CA
1989 - 7th International Conf. of Mathematics and Computing in Modeling, Chicago, IL
1990 - Parallel Computing: Achievements, Problems and Prospects, Capri, Italy
1991 - Symbolic - Numeric Data Analysis and Learning, Paris, France
1992 - International Conf. on Symbolic Algebraic Computation, Berkeley, CA
1996 - Hermis'96, Athens, Greece
1997 - IMACS '97 World Congress, Berlin, Germany
1998 - 4th Nat. Congress SIMAI, Taormina, Italy
1999 - European Research Conf., San Feliu de Guixols, Spain
1999 - Second Problem Solving Environments Conference, Kanazawa,
Japan
National:
1963 - SIAM National Meeting, Washington, D.C.
1964 - Symposium on Approximation of Functions, Warren, MI
1966 - Gordon Conf. on Numerical Data of Science, WA
1966 - Association of Computing Machinery, National Meeting, Los Angels, CA
1967 - ACM Symposium on Interactive Applied Mathematics, Washington, D.C.
1968 - SIAM Symposium on Nonlinear Methods, Philadelphia, PA
1969 - MRC Symposium on Approximation, Madison, WI
1972 - Conf. on Approximation and Applications, Lansing, MI
1973 - Conf. on Approximation Theory, Austin, TX
1973 - National Computer Conf., New York, NY
1975 - George Forsythe Memorial Lecturer, Computer Science Conf., Washington, D.C
1975 - Symposium on Analytical Computational Complexity, Pittsburg, PA
1976 - Keynote Speaker, Computer Science and Statistics Interface Conf., Cambridge, MA
1976 - ACM National Conf., Houston, TX
1977 - Research Directions in Software Technology, Providence, RI
1978 - Recent Advances in Numerical Analysis, Madison, WI
1978 - SIAM National Meeting, Knoxville, TN
1980 - Elliptic Problem Solvers, Sante Fe, NM
1981 - Whitney Symposium on Science and Technology, Albany, NY
1983 - Elliptic Problem Solvers II, Monterey, CA
1985 - Army Conf. Applied Mathematics and Computing, Atlanta, GA
1986 - SIAM National Meeting, Boston, MA
1986 - Computers and Mathematics, Stanford, CA
1986 - ACM/IEEE Fall Joint Conf., Dallas, TX
1987 - History of Numerical Computation, Princeton, NJ
1987 - Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing, SIAM, Los Angeles, CA
1988 - Iterative Methods for Large Linear Systems, Austin, TX
1989 - SIAM Conf. on Geometric Modeling, Tempe, AZ
1991 - National Software Exchange, Sunnyvale, CA
1995 - International Conf. on Parallel Processing, Oconomowoc, WI
1996 - Salishan Conf., Glenedin Beach, OR
2000 - American Physical Society, Minneapolis, MN.
PROFESSIONAL AND PURDUE UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES
Professional Activities:
| 1966-68 | SIAM Visiting Lecturer |
| 1967-69 | ACM Visiting Lecturer |
| 1970, 74, 77 | Organizer - Mathematical Software Symposia |
| 1970-73 | SIGNUM - Board of Directors |
| 1977-79 | ............ - Chairman |
| 1974 | Organizer - SIAM session at National Computing Conference |
| 1975-78 | Chairman - COSERS Panel on Numerical Computing |
| 1977 | IFIP Working Group 2.5 |
| 1982-89 | ............ - Vice-Chairman |
| 1981-83 | NBS Center for Applied Mathematics, Review Panel |
| 1983 | Organizer - PDE Software Conference |
| 1982-85 | AFIPS - Awards Committee |
| 1987-93 | NASA - University Science Research Association Council |
| 1990-93 | ............ - Convenor, ICASE Science Council |
| 1987 | NRC - NASA Review Panel |
| 1987-94 | Computing Research Board |
| 1991-93 | Computing Research Association - Chair |
| 1988, 90, 93 | Organizer - International Conf. on Expert Systems in Numerical Computing |
| 1989-92 | NSF - Computers and Computing Research Division, Advisory Board |
| 1991 | Organizer - Future Directions Research in Problem Solving Environments |
| 1991- | IMACS - Vice President |
| 1991- | ............ - Trustee |
| 1995 | Organizer - ARPA/NSF Workshop on Scalable Scientific Libraries and PSEs |
| 1996 | Organizer - Quality of Numerical Software Conference |
| 1996 | Organizer - IEEE Computational Science and Engineering Conference | 1996 | NRC - Panel to assess NSF Science and Technology Centers program. |
Editorial Activities:
| 1968-82 | Associate Editor - Journal on Approximation Theory |
| 1973-83 | Editorial Board - Mathematics of Computation |
| 1974-84 | Editorial Board - Acta Informatica |
| 1975-93 | Editor-in-Chief - ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software |
| 1975-81 | Publications Board - ACM |
| 1983- | Editorial Board - Information Sciences |
| 1988- | Editorial Board - International Journal on High Speed Computing |
| 1988- | Editorial Board - Computing Systems in Engineering |
| 1989 | Guest Editor - Mathematics & Computers in Simulation (Vol. 31, No. 4 & 5) |
| 1990- | Editorial Board - Modeling and Scientific Computing |
| 1991-92 | Editorial Board - Journal on Parallel & Distributed Computing |
| 1991- | Editorial Board - Mathematics and Computers in Simulation |
| 1993- | Editorial Board - ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software |
| 1994-98 | Editorial Board - IEEE Computational Science and Engineering | 1998- | Editorial Board - Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering | 1999- | Editorial Board - Computing in Science and Engineering | 1999- | Editorial Board - Advances in Engineering Software | 2000- | Editorial Board - Intl. J. Computational & Numerical Analysis and Applications | 2001- | Editorial Board - Computing Letters |
Ph.D. Students:
1967 - Usow
1968 - Burchard, Hoff
1969 - Symes
1973 - Aird, Oldehoeft
1974 - Heminger, Houstis
1976 - Lemme
1979 - Boisvert
1982 - Dyksen, Ward
1983 - Huerta
1986 - Ribbens, Sharma
1992 - McFaddin
1996 - Drashansky
2000 - Zhuang
2001 - Tsompanopoulou
Purdue University Committees, etc.
| 1965-69 | Graduate - Mathematics |
| 1967-70 | Graduate - Computer Sciences (Chairman) |
| 1966, 67, 69, 71, 76, 82 | Promotion - Math Sciences |
| 1968-72, 73-79, 96-97 | Personnel - Computer Sciences |
| 1969-71, 75-78 | School of Science Council |
| 1971-72 | Graduate Council |
| 1971-79, 81-83 | Promotion - Computer Sciences (Chairman) |
| 1974-77 | University Traffic Appeals Board |
| 1974-75, 85-86, 1992 | Dean of Science Search Committee |
| 1981-83, 97-98 | School of Science Promotions |
| 1983-96 | Department Head - Computer Sciences |
| 1992-93 | Department Head Search - Chemistry |
| 1992-94 | Organizer - Computational Science and Engineering Program |