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American computer scientist and mathematician
Joseph S. B. Mitchell
is an American
computer scientist
and
mathematician
. He is Distinguished
Professor
and Department Chair of
Applied Mathematics
and
Statistics
and Research Professor of
Computer Science
at
Stony Brook University
.
Biography
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Mitchell received a BS (1981, Physics and Applied Mathematics), and an MS (1981, Mathematics) from
Carnegie Mellon University
, and Ph.D. (1986, Operations Research) from
Stanford University
(under advisership of
Christos Papadimitriou
).
[1]
He was with
Hughes Research Laboratories
(1981?86) and then on the faculty of
Cornell University
(1986?1991). He now serves as Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Research Professor of Computer Science at
Stony Brook University
. He serves as Chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (since 2014).
Mitchell has served for several years on the Computational Geometry Steering Committee,
[2]
often as Chair. He is on the editorial board of the journals
Discrete and Computational Geometry
,
[3]
Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
,
[4]
Journal of Computational Geometry
,
[5]
and the
Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications
,
[6]
and is an editor-in-chief of the
International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications
.
[7]
He has served on numerous program committees and was co-chair of the PC for the 21st ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (2005).
Research
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Mitchell's primary research area is
computational geometry
, applied to problems in
computer graphics
,
visualization
,
air traffic management
,
manufacturing
, and
geographic information systems
.
Awards and honors
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Mitchell has been an NSF Presidential Young Investigator,
Fulbright Scholar
, and a recipient of the President's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. He shared the 2010
Godel Prize
with
Sanjeev Arora
for devising a
polynomial-time approximation scheme
for the Euclidean
travelling salesman problem
.
[8]
[9]
In 2011 the
Association for Computing Machinery
listed him as an
ACM Fellow
for his research in computational geometry and
approximation algorithms
.
[10]
He has also won numerous teaching awards.
References
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- ^
Joseph S. B. Mitchell
at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^
Computational Geometry Steering Committee
- ^
Editorial Board
, DCG
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Editorial Board
, CGTA
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Editorial Team
, JoCG
- ^
Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications
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Editorial Board
, IJCGA
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Rosenberger, Jack (2010), "Godel Prize and Other CS Awards: Sanjeev Arora, Joseph S.B. Mitchell, and other researchers are recognized for their contributions to computer science",
Communications of the ACM
,
53
(8): 21,
doi
:
10.1145/1787234.1787267
.
- ^
"Mathematics People: Arora and Mitchell Awarded Godel Prize"
(PDF)
,
Notices of the AMS
,
57
(8): 1000, 2010
.
- ^
ACM Names Fellows for Computing Advances that Are Driving Innovation
Archived
2011-12-09 at the
Wayback Machine
,
Association for Computing Machinery
, December 8, 2011.
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