__NOTOC__ Jacob Theodore "Jack" Schwartz (January 9, 1930 – March 2, 2009) was an American

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, computer scientist, and professor of

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at the

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. He was the designer of the SETL

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and started the NYU Ultracomputer project. He founded the New York University Department of Computer Science, chairing it from 1964 to 1980.

Early life

Schwartz was born in

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, New York on January 9, 1930 to Ignatz and Hedwig Schwartz. He attended Stuyvesant High School and went on to City College of New York.Anastasio, Sal
"In Memory of Jacob Schwartz"
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Education

Schwartz received his B.S. (1949) from the City College of New York and his M.A. (1949) and Ph.D. in mathematics (1952) from

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. His doctoral thesis was entitled ''Linear Elliptic Differential Operators'' and his thesis advisor was Nelson Dunford.

Career

Schwartz's research interests included the theory of linear operators,

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s, quantum field theory,

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, parallel computing,

design and implementation,

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approaches in

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, proof and

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systems; multimedia authoring tools; experimental studies of visual perception; multimedia and other high-level software techniques for analysis and visualization of bioinformatic data. Schwartz authored 18 books and more than 100 papers and technical reports. He was also the inventor of the Artspeak programming language, which historically ran on mainframes and produced graphical output using a single-color graphical plotter. Schwartz served as chairman of the Computer Science Department (which he founded) at the

, from 1969 to 1977. He also served as chairman of the Computer Science Board of the

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and was the former chairman of the

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Advisory Committee for Information, Robotics and Intelligent Systems. From 1986 to 1989, he was the director of

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's Information Science and Technology Office (DARPA/ISTO) in

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Personal life

Schwartz was previously married to computer scientist Frances E. Allen from 1972 to 1982.

Publications

*Nelson Dunford, Jacob T. Schwartz ''Linear Operators'', Part I General Theory , Part II Spectral Theory, Self Adjoint Operators in Hilbert Space , Part III Spectral Operators * *Jacob T. Schwartz, ''Introduction to Matrices and Vectors'', McGraw-Hill (1961) *Jacob T. Schwartz, ''Lectures on the Mathematical Method in Analytical Economics'', Gordon and Breach (1961) *Jacob T. Schwartz, ''Relativity In Illustrations'', New York University Press (1962) *Jacob T. Schwartz, ''Theory of money (Mathematics and its applications)'', Gordon and Breach (1965) *Jacob T. Schwartz, ''W-* algebras (Notes on mathematics and its applications)'', Gordon and Breach (1967), *Jacob T. Schwartz (ed.)
''Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science''
American Mathematical Society (1967) *Jacob T. Schwartz, ''Nonlinear Functional Analysis'', Gordon and Breach (1968) *Jacob T. Schwartz, ''Differential Geometry and Topology'', Gordon and Breach (1969) * Schwartz, J.T.; Cocke, John
''PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND THEIR COMPILERS : Preliminary Notes''
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, Second Revised Version, April 1970 * *Jacob T. Schwartz, Robert B. K. Dewar, ''Programming With Sets: An Introduction to Setl'', Springer (November 1986), *Jacob T. Schwartz, ''The Limits of Artificial Intelligence'', found in the ''Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence'', 2 vols., John Wiley and Songs, 1987 *Jacob T. Schwartz, Mark Kac, and Gian-Carlo Rota, ''Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science, and Philosophy'', Birkhäuser Boston; 2nd edition (January 11, 2008),

Awards and honors

*Recipient

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*Townsend Harris Medal, City University of New York *Mayor's Medal for Contributions to Science and Technology, New York City, 1986 *

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, August 1981 (shared with N. Dunford) *Sloan Fellow, 1961–1962 *Distinguished Lecturer at the following Universities: University of California, Santa Barbara; Harvard University; MIT; Cornell University; University of Washington; University of Southern California; Trinity College, Dublin * Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1976, and to the

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in 2000.

References

External links

A Symposium to Honor the Scientific Career of Jacob T. Schwartz
(2004). *

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Jacob SchwartzNAE pageJacob T. Schwartz's personal web siteMartin Davis and Edmond Schonberg, "Jacob Theodore Schwartz", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2011)
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