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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External links
- [https://s2.smu.edu/~matula/ Home page]
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Category:20th-century American mathematicians
Category:21st-century American mathematicians
Category:American computer scientists
Category:McKelvey School of Engineering alumni
Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni