weyrich@csun1.UUCP (Orville Weyrich) (06/25/89)
I need to compile a list of persons that are both respected computer scientists and also have their terminal degrees in chemistry. I would appreciate any nominations for inclusion on the list. If you have some people in mind, please E-MAIL me your ideas. Include if possible both the persons's name, their current whereabouts (if living), and the nature of their contribution to computer science. Feel free to nominate yourself ;-) Thanks a bunch, and I will summarize to the net. -- Orville R. Weyrich, Jr. | UUCP : ...gatech!csun1!weyrich Department of Computer Science | INTERNET: weyrich@csun1.cs.uga.edu University of Georgia | Athens, GA 30602 USA | MA BELL : (404) 542-1082
weyrich@csun1.UUCP (Orville Weyrich) (07/01/89)
> I need to compile a list of persons that are both respected computer > scientists and also have their terminal degrees in chemistry. > > I would appreciate any nominations for inclusion on the list. If you > have some people in mind, please E-MAIL me your ideas. > Include if possible both > the persons's name, their current whereabouts (if living), and the nature of > their contribution to computer science. Feel free to nominate yourself ;-) > > Thanks a bunch, and I will summarize to the net. > THANKS FOR THE RESPONSES SUMMARIZED BELOW. I WOULD STILL LIKE TO SEE MORE, SO KEEP THE INFO COMMING! ;-). PS -- IF SOMEONE COULD BE SO KIND AS TO POST THIS FOR ME OUTSIDE NA I WOULD BE GRATEFUL -- MY SYSTEM CAN'T SEEM TO DO THIS. > -- > Orville R. Weyrich, Jr. | UUCP : ...gatech!csun1!weyrich > Department of Computer Science | INTERNET: weyrich@csun1.cs.uga.edu > University of Georgia | > Athens, GA 30602 USA | MA BELL : (404) 542-1082 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neil Ostlund (Toronto?) started out as a quantum chemist, but more recently has done work in innovative architectures for scientific programming; systolic arrays, in particular. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Stanley Hagstrom, at Indiana University, has his doctorate in chem but taught some computer science, including an excellent computer structures class I took. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- i know that in the early 60's there was something here at rice called the "rice computer". this computer, designed and built here at rice, was supposed to be a very inovative and respected device. two chemist were involved w/ the project. Z. W. Salsburg and Dr. Kilpatrick. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- H. George Friedman, in our department, has a degree in C.S. I think he collaborated on the authorship of a compiler book. I would not say he is well-known, even though he has been a professor for about 20 years. He has done a lot of work with the PLATO CAI system here at Illinois. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles F. Bender, recently of Georgia, is a first class computational chemist who happens to be the director of the Ohio Supercomputer Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Here is a stretch...] George F. Adams III is a "shooter" at the Army's Ballistic Research Lab in Aberdeen, Maryland. He has been mostly responsible for pushing the acquisition and use of the big Crays they have up there. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Another more general stretch] I would argue that many leading computational chemists are really very good "computer scientists" as well. It takes an innate understanding and appreciation of the underlying hardware to get the last iota of performance out of a machine... something these guys are good at. I offer the names of Isaiah Shavitt, Charles Bauschlicher (sp?), Bowen Liu, Jan Ahmlof (sp?) ... as representatives of leading practitioners of computational chemistry. There are, of course, quite a few others I have not mentioned! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A side note, Isaiah Shavitt [I postdoc'd with him for a spell in the early 80's] is pretty much the grandfather of the art. I believe he was an original user of the famous "moth in the relay" machine of computer folklore... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Thomas Defanti Dept of EECS University of Illinois at Chicago Contributions to Computer Graphics, including a much-cited paper on scientific visualization. I recall that he may have a Ph.D. in Chemistry; I definitely remember that he had a joint appointment with the Chemistry Dept. when I was a student at UIC in the early 80's. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yonathan Bard Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (close enough? :-) IBM Cambridge Research Center works in performance analysis and is known for statistical analysis of measurement data and use of maximum entropy approximation in analysis of disk subsystems ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My freshman chemistry lab instructor at Purdue was John Brackett, who was just finishing his doctorate in chemistry. John went on to become an officer of Softech and Softech Microsystems (publishers of the UCSD p-system as a commercial product). I saw an announcement a couple of years ago that he was a professor at Wang Institute, but don't know if he remained with them when they were absorbed. -- Orville R. Weyrich, Jr. | UUCP : ...gatech!csun1!weyrich Department of Computer Science | INTERNET: weyrich@csun1.cs.uga.edu University of Georgia | Athens, GA 30602 USA | MA BELL : (404) 542-1082