Anthony C. Hearn

Anthony C. (Tony) Hearn is an adjunct staff member at RAND in Santa Monica, California and at the IDA Center for Computing Sciences in Bowie, Maryland. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Adelaide in Australia before obtaining a Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge University in 1962. From 1962 until 1964 he was a Research Associate in Physics at Stanford University, and returned there as an Assistant Professor in 1965 after a year at the Rutherford Laboratory in England. In 1969 he joined the University of Utah as an Associate Professor in Physics, and was made Professor in 1971. From 1973 until 1980 he was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science. He joined RAND in July, 1980 as Head of the Information Sciences Department, a position he held until August 1984. He was a Resident Scholar at RAND from 1990 until 1996.

Hearn is best known for his work in mathematical software development, particularly the algebraic computation program REDUCE which has been used at several thousand sites throughout the world. He was also one of the founders of the CSNET computer network, winner of the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award for 2009. His current interests include symbolic and algebraic computation, scientific software, computer security and computer networks. He has published many articles in the symbolic mathematical computation area including several reviews. He has been involved in research and instructional activities at several organizations in Europe, the most recent being the German National Research Center for Information Technology in Bonn and the Konrad Zuse Center in Berlin. He has served on many national committees sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Science Foundation and the Universities Space Research Association among others. He has also consulted for several computing companies. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a member of the American Physical Society. He was a SIAM National Lecturer during the 1976-1977 academic year and an ACM National Lecturer from 1978 until 1980. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow from 1967 until 1969.

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August 2009