Matthew T. Dickerson

Dickerson received an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1985 and a Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University, under the supervision of Dexter Kozen, in 1989.[http://community.middlebury.edu/~dickerso/research/index.html Dickerson's research web page] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090209233830/http://community.middlebury.edu/~dickerso/research/index.html |date=2009-02-09 }} at Middlebury College, retrieved 2009-11-18. His Ph.D. research was in symbolic computation, but since then he has worked primarily in computational geometry; his most frequently cited computer science papersAccording to a Google scholar search, 2009-11-19. concern k-nearest neighbors algorithm{{citation |title=Simple algorithms for enumerating interpoint distances and finding k nearest neighbors |first1=Matthew T. |last1=Dickerson |first2=Robert L. (Scot) III |last2=Drysdale |first3=Jörg-Rüdiger |last3=Sack |author3-link=Jörg-Rüdiger Sack |journal=International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications|volume=2 |issue=3 |year=1992 |pages=221–239 |doi=10.1142/S0218195992000147}}. and minimum-weight triangulation.{{citation |contribution=A (usually?) connected subgraph of the minimum-weight triangulation |first1=Matthew T. |last1=Dickerson |first2=Mark H. |last2=Montague |title=Proceedings of the 12th Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry |publisher=ACM |year=1996 |pages=204–213 |doi=10.1145/237218.237364 |isbn=0-89791-804-5 |s2cid=18962760 |url=ftp://ftp.ams.sunysb.edu/pub/geometry/msi-workshop/95/dickerso.ps.gz}}. Dickerson has been on the Middlebury College faculty since receiving his Ph.D.[https://www.cs.tufts.edu/research/geometry/FWCG09/bios.html#dickerson Biography] as an invited speaker at the 19th Annual Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry, Tufts University, 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-18.

From 1997 to 2001, Dickerson published a biweekly column on fishing and the outdoors in the Addison Independent, a local newspaper.[http://community.middlebury.edu/~dickerso/fishing/articles.html Dickerson's Vermont fishing articles] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212165425/http://community.middlebury.edu/~dickerso/fishing/articles.html |date=2009-02-12}} from his Middlebury College web site. Retrieved 2009-11-18.

Since 2002, he has been the director of the New England Young Writers Conference,[http://www.houghton.edu/news/articles/20090901.asp Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611012605/http://www.houghton.edu/news/articles/20090901.asp |date=2010-06-11}} as a featured speaker at the Fall 2009 Houghton College Writing Festival. Retrieved 2009-11-18. an annual four-day conference for high school students in Bread Loaf, Vermont, that is associated with Middlebury College. He is also the founding director of the Vermont Conference on Christianity and the Arts.[http://www.christianityarts.org/AboutUs.dsp About us] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090731215959/http://www.christianityarts.org/AboutUs.dsp |date=2009-07-31 }}, Vermont Conference on Christianity and the Arts. Retrieved 2009-11-18. He plays bass in a Vermont-based blues band, Deep Freyed.[http://www.deepfreyed.com/ Deep Freyed Blues Band] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110202153102/http://deepfreyed.com/ |date=2011-02-02}}. Retrieved 2009-11-18.

Dickerson is the author of six non-technical books, most of them about fantasy fiction. His 2003 book Following Gandalf: Epic Battles and Moral Victory in The Lord of the Rings,Brazos Press, 2003, {{ISBN|978-1-58743-085-5}} a study of the moral and Christian values expressed by Tolkien's works, highlights the contrasts between moral and physical victories, and between heroism and violence; it points out the necessity of having free will in order to make moral choices.Reviews of Following Gandalf: [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/februaryweb-only/2-2-14.0.html Review by David O'Hara] (2004), Christianity Today; [http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2004/2004-r3.html Review by Gregory S. Bucher] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091231160442/http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2004/2004-r3.html |date=2009-12-31 }} (2004), Journal of Religion and Society; [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-113855838/tolkien-friendship-and-belief.html Review by Augustine J. Curley] (2003), Library Journal; [https://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/br12-gandolf.html Review by Rudy Regehr] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003151144/http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/br12-gandolf.html |date=2012-10-03 }} (2006), Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. It was shortlisted for the Mythopoeic Society's 2004 and 2005 Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards.[https://www.mythsoc.org/awards/awards-scholarship.htm Past finalists for the Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090831025137/http://www.mythsoc.org/awards/scholarship/ |date=2009-08-31 }}, from the web site of the Mythopoeic Society. Retrieved 2009-11-18. He has written a pair of books on Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and environmentalism, Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkienwith Jonathan Evans, University Press of Kentucky, 2006, {{ISBN|978-0-8131-2418-6}}Reviews of 'Ents, Elves, and Eriador: Review by Patrick Curry (2007), Tolkien Studies 4: 238–244, {{doi|10.1353/tks.2007.0010}}; Review by Susan Palwick (2008), Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 15 (1): 266–268, {{doi|10.1093/isle/15.1.266}}. and Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: The Environmental Vision of C. S. Lewis.with David L. O'Hara, The University Press of Kentucky, 2009, {{ISBN|978-0-8131-2522-0}}Reviews of 'Narnia and the Fields of Arbol: [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6607290.html Review by Charles C. Nash] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118204746/http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6607290.html |date=2009-01-18 }} (2008), Library Journal; Jason Peters, [https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670509991045 The Natural in the Light of the Supernatural] (2010), The Review of Politics; Elizabeth Blum, [https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emq096 Review of Narnia and the Fields of Arbol] (2010), Environmental History; Débora Maldonado-DeOliveira, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41289369 Review of Narnia and the Fields of Arbol] (2011), Rocky Mountain Review; Charles A. Huttar, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/48579571 Review of Narnia and the Fields of Arbol] (2009), The C.S. Lewis Journal. Despite giving the first of these two books an overall negative review, reviewer Patrick Curry writes that it is "a major new contribution to the subject of Tolkien's work".

His other books include The Finnsburg Encounter.Crossway Books, 1991, {{ISBN|978-0-89107-604-9}} a work of historical fiction, translated into German as Licht uber Friesland,Verlag Schulte & Gerth, 1996, {{ISBN|3-89437-422-5}} Hammers and Nails: The Life and Music of Mark Heard,Cornerstone Press, 2003, {{ISBN|978-0-940895-49-2}} a biography of musician Mark Heard,Review of Hammers and Nails: [http://www.tollbooth.org/2003/books/heard.html Review by Chris Macintosh] (2003), The Phantom Tollbooth. and

From Homer to Harry Potter: A Handbook on Myth and Fantasy.with David L. O'Hara, Brazos Press, 2006, {{ISBN|978-1-58743-133-3}}Review of From Homer to Harry Potter: [https://doi.org/10.1177%2F014833310705600417 Review by Gregory Hartley] (2007), Christianity and Literature.

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