09/15/2000 -
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his landmark thesis on the successive over relaxation (SOR) theory, a symposium honoring David M. Young was held at the 2000 SIAM Annual Meeting, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico. Students and colleagues gathered together to honor him for his contributions to scientific computing and congratulate him on his recent retirement from The University of Texas at Austin. Young, who earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard, held the positions of Ashbel Smith Professor of Mathematics and Professor of Computer Sciences. The speakers were Kang C.
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04/30/2000 -
A symposium honoring Professor Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences and Professor of Mathematics, was held May 12-13, 2000, on the event of his recent retirement. His colleagues assembled an exciting two-day symposium attended by internationally known computer scientists. The symposium was held in Taylor Hall on the UT campus and ended with a farewell address by Dijkstra.
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