Michael Thomas Heath (born December 11, 1946) is a retired

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who specializes in scientific computing. He is the director of the

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, 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. Heath was inducted as member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2002, a Fellow of the

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in 2000, and a Fellow of the

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in 2010. He also received the 2009 Taylor L. Booth Education Award from IEEE.2009 Awards
IEEE computer society He became an emeritus professor in 2012. Heath is the author of ''Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey'', an introductory text on numerical analysis.

Education

Michael Heath earned his BA in

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from the University of Kentucky in 1968. In 1974, Heath earned his MS in Mathematics from the University of Tennessee. Heath earned his

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in Computer Science from

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in 1978; his PhD dissertation was entitled ''Numerical Algorithms for Nonlinearly Constrained Optimization'' and was completed under the direction of Gene Golub.

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.

Selected publications

References

External links

Michael T. Heath's Web Site
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