Richard Fateman

Richard J Fateman
Richard J Fateman
Born	November 4, 1946
Nationality	American
Education	B.S. (1966), Union College; Ph.D. (1971), Harvard University
Occupation	Computer scientist
Employer	University of California, Berkeley
Known for	Macsyma, Franz Lisp
Spouse	Martha Fateman
Children	Abigail Fateman; Johanna Fateman;
Call sign	KJ6BIH
	Scientific career
Thesis	Essays in Algebraic Simplification (1971)
Doctoral advisor	Joel Moses ; Anthony Oettinger

Richard J Fateman (born November 4, 1946)^[1] is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

He received a BS in Physics and Mathematics from Union College in June, 1966, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in June, 1971. He was a major contributor to the Macsyma computer algebra system at MIT and later to the Franz Lisp system. His current interests include scientific programming environments; computer algebra systems; distributed computing; analysis of algorithms; programming and measurement of large systems; design and implementation of programming languages; and optical character recognition. In 1999, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Richard Fateman is the father of musician Johanna Fateman.

References

^ Page 97, Who's who in California, Volume 22, Alice Catt Armstrong, Sarah Alice Vitale, Who's Who Historical Society, 1993 - California