Michael Heath (computer scientist), Date of Birth

Michael Heath (computer scientist)

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1946

Profession: computer scientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Michael Thomas Heath (born December 11, 1946) is a retired computer scientist who specializes in scientific computing.
He is the director of the Center for the Simulation of Advanced Rockets, a Department of Energy-sponsored computing center at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and the former Fulton Watson Copp Professor of Computer Science at UIUC.
Heath was inducted as member of the European Academy of Sciences in 2002, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2000, and a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2010.
He also received the 2009 Taylor L.
Booth Education Award from IEEE.
He became an emeritus professor in 2012.Heath is the author of Scientific Computing: An Introductory Survey, an introductory text on numerical analysis.[H02]