• DocumentCode
    1382593
  • Title

    John R. Rice: Mathematical Software Pioneer

  • Author

    Haigh, Thomas

  • Author_Institution
    University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
  • Volume
    32
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    72
  • Lastpage
    81
  • Abstract
    John Rischard Rice is one of the founders of mathematical software as a distinct scholarly community. Trained in mathematics he spent four decades in Purdue´s Department of Computer Sciences. During the 1970s he convened a series of seminal conferences on the topic and established ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software which he edited for many years. Rice led development of the ELLPACK system for solving partial differential equations and helped to establish techniques for the performance evaluation of mathematical software. He has published 21 books.
  • Keywords
    ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software; Computing Research Association; Ellpack; History of computing; Purdue University; Rice; mathematical software;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1058-6180
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAHC.2010.64
  • Filename
    5639124
    • Link To Document
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