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Ronald F. Boisvert

Ronald F. Boisvert

Ronald F. Boisvert leads the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division of the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University in 1979 and has been at NIST (formerly the National Bureau of Standards) since then. His research interests include numerical solution of partial differential equations, mathematical software, and information services that support computational science. He contributed to the development of the original ELLPACK system for elliptic boundary value problems, the NBS Core Math Library, VFFTPACK (for vectorized FFTs), VFNLIB (for vectorized Bessel functions), the Guide to Available Mathematical Software, and the Matrix Market. He is one of the principal editors for the NIST Digital Library of Mathematical Functions, now under development. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 1992-2005, and co-chair of the Numerics Working Group of the Java Grande Forum 1998-2003. He is currently Co-Chair of the Publications Board of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and Chair of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 2.5 (Numerical Software). He was awarded the U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal for Meritorious Federal Service in 1992, the Outstanding Contribution to ACM Award in 2000, and the Keene State College Alumni Achievement Award in 2002. He was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2006, and received the IFIP Silver Core distinction in 2007. He is a member of the ACM, SIAM, the American Mathematical Society, and the IEEE Computer Society.

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Affiliation
Mathematical and Computational Science Division
Information Technology Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
US Department of Commerce
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Positions Chief, NIST Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division
Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Math Software
Co-Chair, ACM Publications Board [ photo ]
Chair, IFIP Working Group 2.5 (Numerical Software) [ photo ]

Location Building 225 (Technology), Room B150
NIST
Gaithersburg, MD USA

Postal Address Mail Stop 8910
NIST
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8910 USA

Contacts Email : boisvert@nist.gov
Voice : +1 301 975-3812
FAX : +1 301 975-3553

Education Ph.D. 1979, Purdue University, Computer Science
M.S. 1977, Purdue University, Computer Science
M.S. 1975, The College of William and Mary, Applied Science
B.S. 1973, Keene State College, Mathematics

Documents Publications
Talks

Projects Quantum Computing and Quantum Communications
Numerical Computing in Java [ photo]
Guide to Available Mathematical Software [ photo ]
ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
ACM Digital Library
Evolving Software Repositories
Matrix Market
Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
Software I've developed is in this list

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Photos: IFIP Working Group 2.5 Annual Meeting and Workshop, May 26-29, 2001.
Photos: IFIP Working Group 2.5 Working Conference on the Architecture of Scientific Software, October 2-4, 2000.
Photos: International Symposium on Computational Science, May 21-22, 1999.

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Last update : 21 August 2008by RFB
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