Michael Thomas Heath (born December 11, 1946) is a retired computer scientist who specializes in scientific computing. He is the director of the Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets, a Department of Energy-sponsored computing center at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and the former Fulton Watson Copp Professor of Computer Science at UIUC. Heath was inducted as member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2002, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2000, and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2010. He also received the 2009 Taylor L. Booth Education Award from IEEE. He became an emeritus professor in 2012.
Heath is the author of Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey, an introductory text on numerical analysis.[H02]
Education
Michael Heath earned his BA in mathematics from the University of Kentucky in 1968. In 1974, Heath earned his MS in mathematics from the University of Tennessee. Heath earned his PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1978; his PhD dissertation was entitled Numerical Algorithms for Nonlinearly Constrained Optimization and was completed under the direction of Gene Golub.[H78]910
Early work
Prior to his work with the University of Illinois, Michael Heath spent a number of years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Heath joined Oak Ridge in 1968 as a Scientific Applications Programmer, and he became a Eugene P. Wigner Postdoctoral Fellow in 1978.
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 National Center for Supercomputing Applications.11
Selected publications
| H78. | "Numerical Algorithms for Nonlinearly Constrained Optimization". Stanford University (PhD dissertation). 1978. Archived from the original on February 27, 2012. |
| H02. | Heath, Michael T (2002). Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-239910-3. Archived from the original on 2006-09-06. Retrieved 2006-12-29. |
External links
References
Administration Archived 2013-09-09 at archive.today, Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets, University of Illinois, retrieved 2013-09-09 http://www.csar.uiuc.edu/admin/index.html ↩
Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science Archived 2013-09-09 at archive.today, Computer Science, University of Illinois, retrieved 2013-09-09 http://cs.illinois.edu/about-us/awards/faculty-awards/chairs-professorships/fulton-watson-copp-chair-computer-science ↩
Heath, Michael. "Biographical Data Form". Archived from the original on 2012-03-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20120301123624/http://www.cse.illinois.edu/~heath/biography/biodata.html ↩
ACM Fellow award citation, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2013-09-09. http://awards.acm.org/award_winners/heath_2177665.cfm ↩
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. http://www.siam.org/about/news-siam.php?id=1708 ↩
2009 Awards, IEEE computer society http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csmediacenter/2009-cs-awards ↩
252 faculty members, academic professionals retire, Illinois News Bureau, November 15, 2012 http://news.illinois.edu/ii/12/1115/academicretirees12.html ↩
2009 Awards, IEEE computer society http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csmediacenter/2009-cs-awards ↩
Heath, Michael. "Biographical Data Form". Archived from the original on 2012-03-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20120301123624/http://www.cse.illinois.edu/~heath/biography/biodata.html ↩
Michael T. Heath at the Mathematics Genealogy Project https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=41388 ↩
Heath, Michael. "Biographical Data Form". Archived from the original on 2012-03-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20120301123624/http://www.cse.illinois.edu/~heath/biography/biodata.html ↩