Elizabeth Redding Jessup is an American computer scientist specializing in numerical linear algebra and the generalized minimal residual method. She is a professor emerita of computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder.[1]
Education and career
editJessup is one of three children of an Indianapolis tax attorney.[2] She majored in mathematics at Williams College, and went to Yale University for graduate study, earning a master's degree in applied physics and a Ph.D. in computer science there.[1] Her 1989 dissertation, Parallel Solution of the Symmetric Tridiagonal Eigenproblem, was supervised by Ilse Ipsen; she was Ipsen's first student.[3]
She joined the University of Colorado Boulder faculty in 1989, as the only woman on the computer science faculty. She became chair of the computer science department there twice, taking advantage of the position to focus on improving both faculty diversity and job satisfaction, before retiring in 2019.[4]
Contributions
editJessup is a coauthor of the book An Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing (with Lloyd D. Fosdick, Carolyn J. C. Schauble, and Gitta Domik, MIT Press, 1996).[5]
In 2008, she founded a biennial conference, the Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b "Elizabeth Jessup", Computer science people, University of Colorado Boulder, 12 December 2016, retrieved 2021-01-04
- ^ "Robert Lowell Jessup", The Indianapolis Star, 13 August 2003 – via Legacy.com
- ^ Elizabeth Jessup at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b Adams, Emily (20 August 2019), 30 years and a day: Jessup retiring after accomplished research, leadership career, University of Colorado Boulder Computer Science, retrieved 2021-01-04
- ^ Reviews of An Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing:
- Elzas, Maurice S. (1997), "Review", ACM Computing Reviews, 38 (7): 342–343
- Manning, Robert (June 1998), SIAM Review, 40 (2): 414–415, JSTOR 2653362
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Paprzycki, M. (July 1997), IEEE Concurrency, 5 (3): 73–74, doi:10.1109/mcc.1997.605921, S2CID 42240125
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Raman, Venkat K. (September 1997), Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 37 (5): 964, doi:10.1021/ci970393u
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