Michael T. Heath | |
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Born | December 11, 1946 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Stanford University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign |
Doctoral advisor | Gene H. Golub |
Michael Thomas Heath (born December 11, 1946) is a retired computer scientist who specializes in scientific computing. He is the director of the Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets,[1] a Department of Energy-sponsored computing center at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and the former Fulton Watson Copp Professor of Computer Science at UIUC.[2] Heath was inducted as member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2002,[3] a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2000,[4] and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2010.[5] He also received the 2009 Taylor L. Booth Education Award from IEEE.[6] He became an emeritus professor in 2012.[7]
Heath is the author of Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey, an introductory text on numerical analysis.[H02][6]
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