Theodore Gyle (Ted) Lewis (born 1941) is an American

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and

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, and professor at the

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Biography

Lewis received his BS in Mathematics and his PhD in computer Science. He started his career at the Oregon State University, where he became Professor of Computer Science and directed its Industry Research Center OACIS. In 1993 he moved to the

, where he was chairman of computer science for four years. In 1997 he moved to DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology, North America, Inc., where he served as president and CEO. After about three years he moved to the

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, where he directed the Digital Business Development division. In his retirement from industry in 2002, he became professor at the

.Ted Lewis's web site
accessed 18.01.2017. A columnist for ''IEEE Internet Computing'', he has contributed pieces to ''

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'' and '' Upside''. He has served two stints of Editor-in-Chief, at ''

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'' from 1987 to 1990 and at ''

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'' from 1993 to 1994.

Selected publications

Lewis has written or co-authored 30 books, including: * El-Rewini, Hesham, Theodore G. Lewis, and Hesham H. Ali. ''Task scheduling in parallel and distributed systems''. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1994. * Lewis, Theodore Gyle. ''The friction-free economy: Marketing strategies for a wired world.'' HarperBusiness, 1997. * El-Rewini, Hesham, and Ted G. Lewis. Distributed and

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. Manning Publications Co., 1998. * Lewis, Ted G. ''Microsoft Rising: And Other Tales of the Silicon Valley.'' IEEE Computer Society Press, 1999. ;Articles, a selection * Lewis, Theodore G., and William H. Payne. "Generalized feedback shift register pseudorandom number algorithm." ''Journal of the ACM'' 20.3 (1973): 456–468. * El-Rewini, Hesham, and Ted G. Lewis. "Scheduling parallel program tasks onto arbitrary target machines." ''Journal of parallel and Distributed Computing'' 9.2 (1990): 138–153.

References

External links

Ted Lewis's web site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Ted Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 1941 births American computer scientists Naval Postgraduate School faculty Oregon State University faculty