Michael Heath (computer scientist)

Michael Thomas Heath (born December 11, 1946) is a retired <a href="/facts/Computer_scientist/DavggjGL">computer scientist</a> who specializes in scientific computing. He is the director of the <a href="/facts/Center_for_the_Simulation_of_Advanced_Rockets/5D5GvIw5">Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets</a>, a <a href="/facts/United_States_Department_of_Energy/PRp6Cz8g">Department of Energy</a>-sponsored computing center at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana%E2%80%93Champaign/gusw7HoS">University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign</a>, 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 <a href="/facts/Fellow/DLThQbkq">Fellow</a> of the <a href="/facts/Association_for_Computing_Machinery/abI2atlP">Association for Computing Machinery</a> in 2000, and a <a href="/facts/Fellow/DLThQbkq">Fellow</a> of the <a href="/facts/Society_for_Industrial_and_Applied_Mathematics/2HY4T5WY">Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics</a> in 2010. He also received the 2009 Taylor L. Booth Education Award from <a href="/facts/Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers/UddC4pUW">IEEE</a>. He became an emeritus professor in 2012.
Heath is the author of Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey, an introductory text on numerical analysis.[H02]

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Michael Heath (computer scientist)