Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Mathematics
State University of New York at Buffalo
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Anthony Ralston (Click for vita) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Mathematics State University of New York at Buffalo |
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Flat 4
58 Prince Consort Road
London SW7 2BE
Phone and fax: (020) 7589 2195
Email: ar9@doc.ic.ac.uk
Last updated: 10 May 2006
Academic Positions:
2. Department of Computing, Imperial College, London: Academic Visitor, 1995-2003.
3. Centre for Educational Studies, Kings College, London: Visiting Professor, 1992-93.
4. Department of Computing, Imperial College, London: Visiting Professor, 1985-86.
5. Department of Statistics and Computer Science, University College, London:
6. Institute of Computer Science, University of London: Visiting Senior
7. Stevens Institute of Technology:
Publications:
Papers - Click for recent math education papers.
Main Professional Activities:
Director:
Member:
Editor, Abacus (Quarterly journal published by Springer), 1983-88
Listed in:
Honors:
1. Encyclopedia of Computer
Science, fourth edition published in July 2000.
2. Teach Yourself Algorithms,
(co-authored with Hugh Neill), Hodder & Stoughton,
1997. Click to see Table of Contents.
3. Discrete Algorithmic Mathematics ,
(co-authored with Stephen Maurer), third edition,
A K Peters, 2004. Click for Table of Contents.
1. Definitions and Examples
Prologue. What Is Discrete Algorithmic Mathematics?
1. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics by Liping Ma, American Mathematical Monthly, December 2001, 988-992. (Click for text of review)
2. A Computer Called LEO by Georgina Ferry, Nature, 7 August 2003.
3. California Dreaming: Reforming Mathematics Education by Suzanne M. Wilson, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, November, 2003, 1245-1249. (Click for text of review)
4.The Other End of the Log by Stephen S. Willoughby, American Mathematical Monthly, January 2004, 72-75. (Click for text of review)
1. Advice to the Superintendent of Denver Public Schools, Rocky Mountain News, 25 July 2005. (Click for text)
2. The Real Scandal in American School Mathematics, Education Week, 27 April 2005. (Click for text)
3. The Next Disaster in American Education: Rising Test Scores, The Sacramento Bee, 1 December 2002. (Click for text.)
1. Research Mathematicians and Mathematics Education: A Critique [2004]: Notices of the American Mathematica1 Society, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 403-411. (Click for text of paper.)
2. Let's Abolish Pencil-and-Paper Arithmetic [1999]: Journal of Computers in
Mathematics and Science Education, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 173-194. (Click for text of paper.)
3. A Zero-Based Curriculum: What It Is and How It Might Be Used,
[1997]: Proceedings of a Working Group at the Eighth International Congress on
Mathematical Education, Seville, July 1996, Nottingham: Shell Centre for
Mathematics Education, pp. 1-10.
4. Calculators and the Changing Role of Computation in Elementary
School Mathematics (with Robert Reys and Barbara Reys)
[1996]: Hiroshima Journal of Mathematics Education,
Vol. 4, pp. 63-71.
5. A Zero-Based Mathematics Curriculum [1994]: Bulletin of
the International Commission on Mathematics Instruction,
June, pp. 14-18.
6. Understanding Mathematics: The Impact of Technology [1993]: In
Schools, Mathematics and the World of Reality, Davis, R.B.
and Maher, C.M., Eds., Allyn and Bacon, pp.79-92.
7. The Effect of Technology on Teaching Mathematics [1989]: In
Proceedings of a Conference on Technology and Mathematics,
Addison-Wesley, pp. 78-82.
8. A Framework for the School Mathematics Curriculum in 2000 [1988]:
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics Education,
Budapest.
9. Can the United States Afford Not to Have a National Mathematics Curriculum? [1988]:
In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Mathematics Education,
University of Chicago.
Four Editions and Eight Publishers: A History of the Encyclopedia of Computer Science [2004]: Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 42-52 (Click for text of paper)
The Case Against Long Division (Click for text of paper)
1. State University of New York at Buffalo:
Department of Computer Science: Professor, 1967-95; Chair, 1967-80;
Department of Mathematics: Professor, 1965-95;
Office of Computer Services: Director, 1965-70.
Visiting Professor, 1978-79.
Research Fellow, 1971-72.
Department of Mathematics: Associate Professor, 1961-64; Professor, 1964-65
Computing Center: Director, 1961-65.
Association for Computing Machinery: President, 1972-74
American Federation of Information Processing Societies: President, 1975-76
Mathematical Association of America: Member, Board of Governors, 1984-87
Computer Task Group, 1968-75
Rand Capital Corporation, 1969-71
Genesee Computer Center, 1975-83
Albert Court (Westminster) Management Company, 2002-
Albert Court (Westminster) Freehold Company, 2002-
Board of Examiners, Graduate Record Examination in Computer Science, 1975-82
Computer Science and Technology Board, National Research Council, 1977-79
MIT Corporation Visiting Committee, Dept. of EE and CS, 1976-79
Mathematical Sciences Education Board, National Research Council, 1985-89
Advisory Board, University of Chicago School Mathematics Project, 1985-89
Executive Committee, Knightsbridge Association
Who's Who in America
American Men and Women of Science
Computer Pioneers (IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995)
ACM: Distinguished Service Award, 1982; Fellow, 1994
AAAS: Fellow, 1989
Royal Society of Arts, Fellow, 1996
Recent Books
Teach Yourself Algorithms - Table
of Contents
2. Iterative and Recursive Algorithms
3. Number Theory Algorithms
4. Algorithms from Algebra
5. Searching and Sorting
6. Algorithms from Linear Algebra
7. Graph and Tree Algorithms
8. Algorithms from Calculus
9. Recursive Algorithms
10. Parallel Algorithms
11. String Algorithms
12. Verification of Algorithms
13. Algorithms to Computer and Calculator Programs
Appendix: Summary of Algorithmic Language
Discrete Algorithmic Mathematics -
Table of Contents
0. Mathematical Preliminaries
1. Algorithms
2. Mathematical Induction
3. Graphs and Trees
4. Fundamental Counting Methods
5. Difference Equations
6. Probability
7. An Introduction to Mathematical Logic
Epilogue. Coming Full Circle with Biology and Minimax Theorems
Recent Book Reviews
Recent Editorials
Recent Math Ed Papers
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