David Matula

{{Short description|American computer scientist}}

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Southern Methodist University

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University of California, Berkeley (PhD)

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David William Matula (born 1937){{r|born}} is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his research on graph theory, graph algorithms, computer arithmetic, and algorithm engineering. He is a professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University, where he formerly held the Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering.{{r|smu}}

Education and career

Matula was an undergraduate in Engineering physics{{Cite web |title=The Architecture of Algorithms |url=https://www.cs.jhu.edu/seminars/2022/spring/april26/david-matula/ |access-date=2025-05-06 |website=Department Seminars |language=en}} at Washington University in St. Louis,{{r|smu}} graduating in 1959.{{r|cv}} He completed his Ph.D. in 1966 at the University of California, Berkeley, with the dissertation Games of Sequence Prediction supervised by David Blackwell.{{r|mg}}

After completing his Ph.D., he returned to Washington University in St. Louis as a faculty member. He joined the Southern Methodist University faculty in 1974 as chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department,{{r|smu}} was named to the Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering in 2016,{{r|cv}} and retired in 2018.{{r|smu}}

Book

Matula is the coauthor, with Peter Kornerup, of the book Finite Precision Number Systems and Arithmetic (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications 133, Cambridge University Press, 2010).{{r|fpnsa}}

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Birth year from [http://d-nb.info/gnd/142918776 German National Library catalog entry], retrieved 2021-07-05

{{citation|url=https://s2.smu.edu/~matula/Vita.pdf|title=Curriculum vitae|date=February 2017|access-date=2021-07-05}}

Reviews of Finite Precision Number Systems and Arithmetic: Frédéric Goualard, {{MR|2732337}}; T. C. Mohan, {{zbl|1230.68008}}

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{{citation|url=https://sites.smu.edu/des/registrar/RetiredFaculty/?a=bio&pid=94&name=David%20Matula|title=David W. Matula, Lyle School of Engineering 2018|work=SMU Retired Faculty|publisher=Southern Methodist University|access-date=2021-07-05}}

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