Gary Lindstrom

{{Short description|American computer scientist (1944–2022)}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Gary Edward Lindstrom

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| birth_date = January 8, 1944{{cite web | title=Professor Emeritus Gary Lindstrom Passes | website=The College of Engineering at the University of Utah | date=January 19, 2022 | url=https://www.coe.utah.edu/2022/01/19/professor-emeritus-gary-lindstrom-passes/ }}

| birth_place = Syracuse, New York

| death_date = January 10, 2022

| death_place = Salt Lake City, Utah

| nationality =

| fields = Computer science

| workplaces = {{Plainlist|

• University of Utah
• University of Pittsburgh

}}

| alma_mater = Carnegie Mellon University

| thesis_title = Variability in Language Processors{{MathGenealogy|45628}}

| thesis_year = 1971

| doctoral_advisor = Alan Perlis

| doctoral_students = Mary Lou Soffa

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| website = {{URL|http://www.cs.utah.edu/~gary/}}

}}

Gary Edward Lindstrom (January 8, 1944 – January 10, 2022) was an emeritus professor of computer science at the University of Utah, having previously taught at the University of Pittsburgh. He retired in July 2007 and died on January 10, 2022.{{cite web | title=Gary Lindstrom Obituary (1944 - 2022) - Salt Lake City, UT | website=Legacy.com | date=January 13, 2022 | url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/saltlaketribune/name/gary-lindstrom-obituary?id=32235738 }}

Lindstrom made numerous contributions to areas of data management, verification, and programming language design, specification and implementation. He served as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor. According to his website, Dr. Lindstrom served as the founding editor-in-chief the International Journal of Parallel Programming ({{ISSN|0885-7458}}) from 1986 to 1993.http://www.cs.utah.edu/~gary/ Gary Lindstrom's website He co-edited, with Doug DeGroot, the book Logic Programming: Functions, Relations and Equations, which was first published by Prentice-Hall in 1986.Giorgio Levi. {{cite book | title=Algebraic and Logic Programming: Third International Conference, Volterra, Italy, September 2-4, 1992. Proceedings | publisher=Springer | year=1992 | isbn=978-3-540-55873-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fCw9GxSyuhQC&pg=PA188 | page=188}}

Lindstrom was a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics, and a Ph.D. in computer science under Alan Perlis.