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David
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Short Biography |
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David W. Matula
received the Ph.D. (66) in engineering science from the University of
California, Berkeley, following a B.S. (59) in engineering physics from
Washington University, St. Louis. Since 1974 he has served as Professor of
Computer Science and Engineering at SMU. He has held visiting research and
teaching positions at UT Austin (73), the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School
(78), and Stanford (80) in the U.S; in Karlsruhe (74) Frankfurt (86), and
Dresden (98) in Germany; in Aarhus (80) and Odense (89-90) in Denmark;
and in Lyon (99), France. His
research focuses on the foundations and applications of algorithm engineering
with specific emphasis on computer arithmetic and graph/network algorithms.
He has published over one hundred archival publications. Two-thirds of his
publications focus on computer arithmetic and have appeared primarily in the
IEEE and computer science literature. Dr. Matula was the keynote speaker for
the 16th IEEE ARITH Symposia (03), and has been involved in
organizing the IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic since 1975. His computer
arithmetic research has been supported for several decades by federal, state,
and corporate agencies, including NSF, Texas ATP, T.I., Cyrix, and the
Semiconductor Research Corporation. Professor
Matulas publications on graph algorithms have appeared in a variety of
mathematical and scientific journals including J. Chem. Physics, J. Am. Chem.
Soc., Comp. and Biomedical Res., and Geographical Analysis. He is a founding
editorial board member of Random Structures and Algorithms, the ORSA
Journal on Computing and the Journal of Classification. As a consultant Dr. Matula has participated in the design of floating point units for microprocessors with Cyrix (88-97), National Semiconductor (97-03), and AMD (03-current). He was a co-designer of the Cyrix FasMath coprocessors, and the one-watt Geode (x-86 compatible) processor introduced by N.S.M. in 2003 and now available from AMD. He has consulted for industry on intellectual property and served on SMUs intellectual property committee for eleven years. Dr. Matula holds 14 U.S. Patents and has 5 applications pending. In the past ten years, five of his Ph. D. students have experienced being co-inventors on these patents and pending applications. |
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