Jack Schwartz

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Jacob T. "Jack" Schwartz (born January 9, 1930) is a United States mathematician, computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the New York University Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He was the designer of the SETL programming language.

He received his B.Sc. (1949) from the City College of New York and his M.A. (1949) and Ph.D. (1951) from Yale University. He was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1976, and to the National Academy of Engineering in 2000.

His research interests have included: the theory of linear operators, von Neumann algebras, quantum field theory, time-sharing, parallel computing, programming language design and implementation, robotics, set-theoretic approaches in computational logic, proof and program verification systems; multimedia authoring tools; experimental studies of visual perception; multimedia and other high-level software techniques for analysis and visualization of bioinformatic data.

He is the author of 18 books and more than 100 papers and technical reports.

[edit] Publications

• Nelson Dunford, Jacob T. Schwartz Linear Operators, Part I General Theory ISBN 0-471-60848-3, Part II Spectral Theory, Self Adjoint Operators in Hilbert Space ISBN 0-471-60847-5, Part III Spectral Operators ISBN 0-471-60846-7

[edit] External links

• A Symposium to Honor the Scientific Career of Jacob T. Schwartz (2004).
• Parallel Computing Pioneers.
• Jack Schwartz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Jacob Schwartz
• NAE page