Gary Miller (computer scientist)
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{{short description|American computer scientist}}
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| workplaces = Carnegie Mellon University
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| doctoral_advisor = Manuel Blum
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| doctoral_students = Susan Landau
F. Thomson Leighton
Shang-Hua Teng
Jonathan Shewchuk
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| thesis_url = https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/research/tr/1975/CS-75-27.pdf
| thesis_title = Riemann's Hypothesis and Tests for Primality
| thesis_year = 1975
| known_for = Miller–Rabin primality test
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| awards = Paris Kanellakis Award (2003) Knuth Prize (2013)
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Gary Lee Miller is an American computer scientist who is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.{{cite web |title=Gary Miller {{!}} Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department |url=https://www.csd.cs.cmu.edu/people/faculty/gary-miller |website=www.csd.cs.cmu.edu}} In 2003 he won the ACM Paris Kanellakis Award (with three others) for the Miller–Rabin primality test. He was made an ACM Fellow in 2002{{Cite web |url=http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=1556943&srt=alpha&alpha=M |title=Citation for Gary Miller's ACM Fellow Award |access-date=2008-09-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621014853/http://fellows.acm.org/fellow_citation.cfm?id=1556943&srt=alpha&alpha=M |archive-date=2009-06-21 |url-status=dead }} and won the Knuth Prize in 2013.{{Cite press release|url=http://www.acm.org/press-room/awards/sigact-knuth-prize-13/view|title=ACM Awards Knuth Prize to Creator of Problem-Solving Theory and Algorithms|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|access-date=31 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103145610/http://www.acm.org/press-room/awards/sigact-knuth-prize-13/view|archive-date=3 November 2013|url-status=dead}}
Early life and career
Miller received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975 under the direction of Manuel Blum. Following periods on the faculty at the University of Waterloo, the University of Rochester, MIT and the University of Southern California, Miller moved to Carnegie Mellon University, where he is now professor of computer science. In addition to his influential thesis on computational number theory and primality testing, Miller has worked on many central topics in computer science, including graph isomorphism, parallel algorithms, computational geometry and scientific computing. His most recent focus on scientific computing led to breakthrough results with students Ioannis Koutis and Richard Peng in 2010 that currently provide the fastest algorithms—in theory and practice—for solving "symmetric diagonally dominant" linear systems, which have important applications in image processing, network algorithms, engineering and physical simulations.{{cite web |title=Gary Miller {{!}} Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing |url=https://simons.berkeley.edu/people/gary-miller |website=simons.berkeley.edu|date=2 July 2013 }} His Ph.D. thesis was titled Riemann's Hypothesis and Tests for Primality.{{cite web |title=Miller's thesis |url=https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~glmiller/Publications/Papers/Mi76.pdf}}
References
External links
- [https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~glmiller/ Gary Miller's web page] at Carnegie Mellon.
- [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=31473 Gary Miller] at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- Miller's original paper "[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=803773&dl=ACM&coll=portal Riemann's Hypothesis and Tests for Primality]"
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Category:Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Category:American theoretical computer scientists
Category:UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni