Dr. Richard Fateman

Biography

Richard Fateman is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has made significant contributions to the fields of computer algebra systems and programming languages. He received his Bachelor of Science in Physics and Mathematics from Union College in 1966 and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1971. Fateman taught in the Mathematics department at MIT from 1971 to 1974 before joining the Computer Science faculty at Berkeley. He played a crucial role in the development of Berkeley's VAX UNIX system and was instrumental in the original development of Franz Lisp. Fateman has served on various committees, including the Common Lisp design committee and the IEEE 754 binary floating-point arithmetic standards committee. He chaired Berkeley's Computer Science department from 1987 to 1990 and has been a principal investigator for grants from the Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and multiple industrial firms. Fateman has authored over 75 technical papers on topics related to computer algebra, programming languages, scientific applications, and document image analysis.

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