| 词条 | George Forsythe |
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| name = George Elmer Forsythe | image = | caption = | birth_date = January 8, 1917 | birth_place = | death_date = {{d-da|April 9, 1972|January 8, 1917}} | death_place = | residence = | citizenship = | ethnicity = | fields = Mathematics, meteorology and computer science | workplaces = Stanford University Boeing National Bureau of Standards | alma_mater = Swarthmore College Brown University | doctoral_advisor = William Feller Jacob Tamarkin | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = Richard Brent J. Alan George Cleve Moler | known_for = | awards = | religion = | signature = | footnotes = | spouse = Alexandra Illmer Forsythe | children = Diana E. Forsythe }} George Elmer Forsythe (January 8, 1917 – April 9, 1972[1]) was the founder and head of Stanford University's Computer Science Department.[1] George 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] Forsythe served as the president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and also co-authored four books on computer science and a fifth on meteorology, and edited more than 75 other books on computer science. Forsythe married Alexandra I. Forsythe, who wrote the first published textbook in computer science[3] and actively participated in her husband's work, while promoting a more active role for women than was common at the time.[4] Between 1950 and 1958 both of them programmed using the SWAC at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in Los Angeles and later at UCLA after the western division of NBS was closed due to political pressures (see Oral History cited below). With his wife, Forsythe had a daughter and a son. According to Donald Knuth, Forsythe's greatest contributions were helping to establish computer science as its own academic discipline and starting the field of refereeing and editing algorithms as scholarly work.[5] Professor Forsythe supervised 17 PhD graduates; many of them went into academic careers.[6] He won a Lester R. Ford Award in 1969[7] and again in 1971.[8] Books by Forsythe
Knuth's 1972 CACM article[5] lists all of Forsythe's published works. References1. ^1 http://icme.stanford.edu/system/files/file-insertions/ForsytheG.pdf 2. ^SIAM: Remembering George Forsythe 3. ^Alexandra I. Forsythe: Computer Science, a First Course; Wiley 1975. 4. ^Jane D. Fairbanks and Helen L. Bryson: Second Careers for Women; Stanford University, 1975. 5. ^1 {{cite journal | last1= Knuth | first1= Donald E. | year = 1972 | title = George Forsythe and the Development of Computer Science | journal = Communications of the ACM| volume = 15 |issue = 8 | pages= 721–726 | authorlink = Donald E. Knuth | url = http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/guzdial/uploads/46/knuth-on-Forsythe-1972-CACM.pdf | doi= 10.1145/361532.361538| citeseerx= 10.1.1.224.7127 }} 6. ^{{Cite web | url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/forsythetree.html | title=Forsythe Tree}} 7. ^{{cite journal|author=Forsythe, George|title=What to do till the computer scientist comes|journal=Amer. Math. Monthly|volume=75|issue=5|year=1968|pages=454–462|url=http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/what-to-do-till-the-computer-scientist-comes|doi=10.2307/2314698|jstor=2314698}} 8. ^{{cite journal|author=Forsythe, George|title=Pitfalls in computation, or why a math book isn't enough|journal=Amer. Math. Monthly|volume=77|issue=9|year=1970|pages=931–956|url=http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/pitfalls-in-computation-or-why-a-math-book-isnt-enough|doi=10.2307/2318109|jstor=2318109}} 9. ^{{cite journal|author=Heard, J. F.|title=Review of Dynamic Meteorology by Jørgen Holmboe, George Forsythe, and William Gustin|journal=Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada|year=1945|volume=39|page=375|bibcode=1945JRASC..39..375H}} 10. ^{{cite journal|author=Lax, Peter D.|authorlink=Peter D. Lax|title=Review: Numerical analysis and partial differential equations, by George E. Forsythe and Paul C. Rosenbloom|journal=Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.|year=1959|volume=65|issue=6|pages=342–343|url=http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1959-65-06/S0002-9904-1959-10363-3/S0002-9904-1959-10363-3.pdf|doi=10.1090/s0002-9904-1959-10363-3}} External links{{wikiquote}}
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