Michael Heath (computer scientist)

Michael T. Heath
Born (1946-12-11) December 11, 1946 (age 77)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Doctoral advisorGene 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]

  1. ^ Administration Archived 2013-09-09 at archive.today, Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets, University of Illinois, retrieved 2013-09-09
  2. ^ Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science Archived 2013-09-09 at archive.today, Computer Science, University of Illinois, retrieved 2013-09-09
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  4. ^ ACM Fellow award citation, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2013-09-09.
  5. ^ SIAM names 34 Fellows for key contributions to applied mathematics and computational science Archived 2018-04-05 at the Wayback Machine, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, March 31, 2010.
  6. ^ a b 2009 Awards, IEEE computer society
  7. ^ 252 faculty members, academic professionals retire, Illinois News Bureau, November 15, 2012