I was born and raised in San Diego, California ---a terrible place to be from since the weather will always be worse elsewhere. Went to college at the University of Santa Clara and headed East for graduate school at the University of Maryland in a suburb of Washington, D.C.
My spouse, Winona, and I have been married since 1964 and we have two quite remarkable daughters Elaine and Barbara who are quite busy setting the world on fire.
We recently have added two grandchildren to our family: Graham and Arlina who will undoubtedly someday make their mark as well.
I taught at Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo) for a year after graduate school before going to work at General Electric in San Jose as a numerical analyst solving all sorts of interesting problems related to the use of nuclear reactors for generating electric power.
From G.E. I went to a contractor working for NASA at the Ames Research Center. There I was involved with the ILLIAC computer, one of the first parallel processors. The ILLIAC gave way to various Cray Vector processors and the group I was with was responsible for providing consulting in the effective use of the supercomputers at Ames.
In the middle of the work at NASA, I spent three years working at ESL with a project involving the use of systolic array computers.
Since 1989, I have been teaching full time at SJSU and enjoying it more than seems fair.
I enjoy flyfishing, backpacking, and programming.
Ph.D. 1971, University of Maryland
Numerical Analysis
M.A. 1966, University of Maryland
Applied Mathematics
B.S. 1963, University of Santa Clara
Mathematics
Naval Ship R&D Center, Carderock, Maryland
Scientific and Engineering applications programming.
Operations Research Inc., Silver Springs, Maryland
Economics applications analysis/programming
General Electric Nuclear Energy Division, San Jose, California
Scientific and Engineering applications analysis/programming
Sterling Software, Palo Alto, California
Supercomputer applications analysis and consulting (@NASA Ames)
ESL, Sunnyvale, California
Time series analysis, systolic array development