Editing Michael Heath (computer scientist)

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

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'''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]],<ref>[http://www.csar.uiuc.edu/admin/index.html Administration] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130909184009/http://www.csar.uiuc.edu/admin/index.html |date=2013-09-09 }}, Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets, University of Illinois, retrieved 2013-09-09</ref> a [[United States Department of Energy|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.<ref>[http://cs.illinois.edu/about-us/awards/faculty-awards/chairs-professorships/fulton-watson-copp-chair-computer-science Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130909184006/http://cs.illinois.edu/about-us/awards/faculty-awards/chairs-professorships/fulton-watson-copp-chair-computer-science |date=2013-09-09 }}, Computer Science, University of Illinois, retrieved 2013-09-09</ref> Heath was inducted as member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2002,<ref name="biodata"/> a [[Fellow]] of the [[Association for Computing Machinery]] in 2000,<ref>[http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/heath_2177665.cfm ACM Fellow award citation], [[Association for Computing Machinery]], retrieved 2013-09-09.</ref> and a [[Fellow]] of the [[Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics]] in 2010.<ref>[http://www.siam.org/about/news-siam.php?id=1708 SIAM names 34 Fellows for key contributions to applied mathematics and computational science] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180405025025/http://www.siam.org/about/news-siam.php?id=1708 |date=2018-04-05 }}, [[Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics]], March 31, 2010.</ref> He also received the 2009 Taylor L. Booth Education Award from [[Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers|IEEE]].<ref name="ieee">[http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csmediacenter/2009-cs-awards 2009 Awards], IEEE computer society</ref>  He became an emeritus professor in 2012.<ref>[http://news.illinois.edu/ii/12/1115/academicretirees12.html 252 faculty members, academic professionals retire], Illinois News Bureau, November 15, 2012</ref>

Heath is the author of ''Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey'', an introductory text on numerical analysis.{{ran|H02}}<ref name="ieee"/>

==Education==
Michael Heath earned his [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in [[mathematics]] from the [[University of Kentucky]] in 1968. In 1974, Heath earned his [[Master of Science|MS]] in mathematics from the [[University of Tennessee]].  Heath earned his [[PhD]] in computer science from [[Stanford University]] in 1978; his PhD dissertation was entitled ''Numerical Algorithms for Nonlinearly Constrained Optimization'' and was completed under the direction of [[Gene Golub]].{{ran|H78}}<ref name=biodata>{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301123624/http://www.cse.illinois.edu/~heath/biography/biodata.html|url=http://www.cse.illinois.edu/~heath/biography/biodata.html|archivedate=2012-03-01|last=Heath|first=Michael|title=Biographical Data Form}}</ref><ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=41388|name=Michael T. Heath}}</ref>

==Early work==
Prior to his work with the University of Illinois, Michael Heath spent a number of years at [[Oak Ridge National Laboratory]].  Heath joined Oak Ridge in 1968 as a Scientific Applications Programmer, and he became a Eugene P. Wigner Postdoctoral Fellow in 1978.

Michael Heath served as an adjunct professor of computer science at the University of Tennessee from 1988 to 1991.  In 1991, Heath joined the University of Illinois, where he soon became a senior research scientist with the [[National Center for Supercomputing Applications]].<ref name=biodata/>

==Selected publications==
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{{rma|H02|{{cite book|last=Heath|first=Michael T|url=http://www.cse.uiuc.edu/heath/scicomp/|title=Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey|publisher=McGraw-Hill|year=2002|isbn=978-0-07-239910-3|access-date=2006-12-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060906165400/http://www.cse.uiuc.edu/heath/scicomp/|archive-date=2006-09-06|url-status=dead}}
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==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.cs.illinois.edu/~heath/ Michael T. Heath's Web Site]
*{{MathGenealogy|id=41388}}

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[[Category:American computer scientists]]
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[[Category:University of Kentucky alumni]]
[[Category:University of Tennessee alumni]]
[[Category:Stanford University School of Engineering alumni]]
[[Category:Oak Ridge National Laboratory people]]
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[[Category:University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty]]
[[Category:2000 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery]]
[[Category:Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics]]
[[Category:Numerical analysts]]
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