James Clayton "Jim" Browne (January 16, 1935 – January 19, 2018) was an American computer scientist.
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| Born | June 16, 1935 |
| Died | January 19, 2018 (aged 82) Austin, TX |
| Nationality | American |
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| Spouse | Patricia Gayle Moseley Browne |
| Children | 3 |
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| Thesis | The Electronic Energy of Helium Hydride (1960) |
| Doctoral advisor | Albert Matsen |
Early life and education
editBorn in Conway, Arkansas,[1] he attended Hendrix College, where he studied chemistry. In 1960, he earned a doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of Texas and joined the faculty. Between 1963 and 1967, Browne worked at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland, where he helped establish the school's first computational center. He was named a full professor upon his return to the University of Texas in 1968. For a time, Browne was chair of the department of computer science,[2] and held the regents' chair #2 in computer sciences.[1]
Career
editBrowne founded the James C. Browne Graduate Fellowship Fund at the University of Texas,[3] and was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery,[4] the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the British Computer Society.[5][6]
Browne was named one of the first faculty of the UT Computer Science Department in 1968, and served as Chair of Computer Science for a number of years, while retaining his appointment as Professor of Physics; he was a faculty member at UT for over 45 years. He had a prolific academic career, publishing nearly 500 research papers and supervising 69 Ph.D. students and 65 masters degree students as well as numerous undergraduate honors students. Browne was a ground-breaker throughout his career, becoming an internationally recognized expert in parallel programming and computation and performance optimization.
Browne was married to Gayle, with whom he had three children (Clayton, Duncan and Valerie), from 1959 to his death on January 19, 2018, aged 83.[7]
References
edit- "Browne, James Clayton". WorldCat. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- "James C. Browne". Archived from the original on 10 March 2020. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
- ^ a b "University of Texas James C. Browne June [sic] 16, 1935–January 19, 2018". University of Texas at Austin Department of Physics. Archived from the original on 10 March 2020. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ "Professor James C Browne". Chilton Computing. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ "The James C. Browne Graduate Fellowship". Department of Computer Science, University of Texas. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ "James C Browne". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ "James C. Browne". Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, University of Texas. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ "James C. Browne". Department of Computer Science, University of Texas. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ "Distinguished retired UT professor passes away at 83". The Daily Texan. 28 January 2018. Archived from the original on 1 February 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2018.