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GENE H. GOLUB
GENE H. GOLUB
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Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 80 3/23/10 3:42:12 PM
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After a postdoctoral year at Cambridge and brief stints at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory and Space Technology Laboratories, he joined the faculty at Stanford University in 1962. In 1965, he was a founding member of Stanford's Department of Computer Science, one of the first computer science departments in the world.
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In fact, numerical analysts started many of the world's computer science departments, including the one at Stanford. Years later one of Gene's colleagues at Stanford remarked, "numerical analysis was the mother of computer science, but today she is acting like an anxious grandmother." Many universities now have interdisciplinary programs in "computational science." In 1988, Gene was the founding director of one of the first such programs in the world.
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He also served on the editorial boards of more than a dozen other journals. In addition, Golub founded the NA Digest, a weekly electronic newsletter that now has more than 10,000 subscribers around the world.
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