Richard Fateman

Richard J Fateman
Born	(1946-11-04) November 4, 1946 (age 78)
Nationality	American
Education	B.S. (1966), Union College Ph.D. (1971), Harvard University
Occupation	Computer scientist
Employer	University of California, Berkeley
Known for	Macsyma, Franz Lisp
Spouse	Martha Fateman
Children	Abigail Fateman Johanna Fateman
Call sign	KJ6BIH

Richard J Fateman (born November 4, 1946)^[1] is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

He received a BS in Physics and Mathematics from Union College in June, 1966, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in June, 1971. He was a major contributor to the Macsyma computer algebra system at MIT and later to the Franz Lisp system. His current interests include scientific programming environments; computer algebra systems; distributed computing; analysis of algorithms; programming and measurement of large systems; design and implementation of programming languages; and optical character recognition. In 1999, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Richard Fateman is the father of musician Johanna Fateman.