Michael Heath (computer scientist)

<h2 id="education">Education</h2>
<p>Michael Heath earned his <a href="/facts/Bachelor_of_Arts/2pa1nwfR">BA</a> in <a href="/facts/Mathematics/pxTouaz4">mathematics</a> from the <a href="/facts/University_of_Kentucky/AdJlvQ7w">University of Kentucky</a> in 1968. In 1974, Heath earned his <a href="/facts/Master_of_Science/5xKwvXjm">MS</a> in mathematics from the <a href="/facts/University_of_Tennessee/V28AVeaU">University of Tennessee</a>.  Heath earned his <a href="/facts/PhD/paJumdN8">PhD</a> in computer science from <a href="/facts/Stanford_University/JEQeF9z2">Stanford University</a> in 1978; his PhD dissertation was entitled <i>Numerical Algorithms for Nonlinearly Constrained Optimization</i> and was completed under the direction of <a href="/facts/Gene_Golub/grRlsYzz">Gene Golub</a>.[H78]<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a>
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<h2 id="early-work">Early work</h2>
<p>Prior to his work with the University of Illinois, Michael Heath spent a number of years at <a href="/facts/Oak_Ridge_National_Laboratory/Elq84HKF">Oak Ridge National Laboratory</a>.  Heath joined Oak Ridge in 1968 as a Scientific Applications Programmer, and he became a Eugene P. Wigner Postdoctoral Fellow in 1978.
</p><p>Michael Heath served as an adjunct professor of computer science at the University of Tennessee from 1988 to 1991.  In 1991, Heath joined the University of Illinois, where he soon became a senior research scientist with the <a href="/facts/National_Center_for_Supercomputing_Applications/vNNK19se">National Center for Supercomputing Applications</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a>
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<h2 id="selected-publications">Selected publications</h2>
<table><tbody><tr><td scope="col">H78.</td><td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120227061932/http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA057962">"Numerical Algorithms for Nonlinearly Constrained Optimization"</a>. Stanford University (PhD dissertation). 1978. Archived from <a href="http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA057962">the original</a> on February 27, 2012.</td></tr></tbody></table>
<table><tbody><tr><td scope="col">H02.</td><td>Heath, Michael T (2002). <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060906165400/http://www.cse.uiuc.edu/heath/scicomp/"><i>Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey</i></a>. McGraw-Hill. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0-07-239910-3. Archived from <a href="http://www.cse.uiuc.edu/heath/scicomp/">the original</a> on 2006-09-06. Retrieved 2006-12-29.</td></tr></tbody></table>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.cs.illinois.edu/~heath/">Michael T. Heath's Web Site</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=41388">Michael Heath</a> at the <a href="/facts/Mathematics_Genealogy_Project/J7AFo1Do">Mathematics Genealogy Project</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Administration Archived 2013-09-09 at archive.today, Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets, University of Illinois, retrieved 2013-09-09 <a href="http://www.csar.uiuc.edu/admin/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.csar.uiuc.edu/admin/index.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science Archived 2013-09-09 at archive.today, Computer Science, University of Illinois, retrieved 2013-09-09 <a href="http://cs.illinois.edu/about-us/awards/faculty-awards/chairs-professorships/fulton-watson-copp-chair-computer-science" target="_blank">http://cs.illinois.edu/about-us/awards/faculty-awards/chairs-professorships/fulton-watson-copp-chair-computer-science</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>Heath, Michael. "Biographical Data Form". Archived from the original on 2012-03-01. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120301123624/http://www.cse.illinois.edu/~heath/biography/biodata.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120301123624/http://www.cse.illinois.edu/~heath/biography/biodata.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>ACM Fellow award citation, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2013-09-09. <a href="http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/heath_2177665.cfm" target="_blank">http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/heath_2177665.cfm</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>SIAM names 34 Fellows for key contributions to applied mathematics and computational science Archived 2018-04-05 at the Wayback Machine, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, March 31, 2010. <a href="http://www.siam.org/about/news-siam.php?id=1708" target="_blank">http://www.siam.org/about/news-siam.php?id=1708</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>2009 Awards, IEEE computer society <a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csmediacenter/2009-cs-awards" target="_blank">http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csmediacenter/2009-cs-awards</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>252 faculty members, academic professionals retire, Illinois News Bureau, November 15, 2012 <a href="http://news.illinois.edu/ii/12/1115/academicretirees12.html" target="_blank">http://news.illinois.edu/ii/12/1115/academicretirees12.html</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:8"><p>2009 Awards, IEEE computer society <a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csmediacenter/2009-cs-awards" target="_blank">http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csmediacenter/2009-cs-awards</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:9"><p>Heath, Michael. "Biographical Data Form". Archived from the original on 2012-03-01. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120301123624/http://www.cse.illinois.edu/~heath/biography/biodata.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120301123624/http://www.cse.illinois.edu/~heath/biography/biodata.html</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:10"><p>Michael T. Heath at the Mathematics Genealogy Project <a href="https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=41388" target="_blank">https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=41388</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:11"><p>Heath, Michael. "Biographical Data Form". Archived from the original on 2012-03-01. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120301123624/http://www.cse.illinois.edu/~heath/biography/biodata.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120301123624/http://www.cse.illinois.edu/~heath/biography/biodata.html</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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