George Forsythe
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For the U.S. Army general, see George I. Forsythe. For other people, see George Forsyth (disambiguation).
George Elmer Forsythe (January 8, 1917 – April 9, 1972[1]) was an American computer scientist and numerical analyst who founded and led Stanford University's Computer Science Department.[1]
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George Elmer Forsythe | |
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Born | January 8, 1917 |
Died | April 9, 1972 (1972-04-10) (aged 55) Stanford, California, U.S. |
Alma mater | Swarthmore College Brown University |
Spouse | Alexandra Illmer Forsythe |
Children | Diana E. Forsythe |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics, meteorology and computer science |
Institutions | Stanford University Boeing National Bureau of Standards |
Doctoral advisor | William Feller Jacob Tamarkin |
Doctoral students | Richard Brent J. Alan George Cleve Moler Beresford Parlett |
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Forsythe came to Stanford in the Mathematics Department in 1959, and served as professor and chairman of the Computer Science department from 1965 until his death.[2] He served as the president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), coauthored four books on computer science and a fifth on meteorology, and edited more than 75 other books on computer science.