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JOSEPH F. TRAUB
Pages 360-365

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... He was hired there as a fellow, with the perk of unlimited computer time. Adapted and reprinted with permission from the Columbia University Computer Science Department.
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... Often collaborating with others, he created significant new algorithms, including the JenkinsTraub algorithm for polynomial zeros, the Kung-Traub algorithm for comparing the expansion of an algebraic function, and the Shaw-Traub algorithm to increase computational speed. He authored or edited 10 monographs and some 120 papers in computer science, mathematics, physics, computational finance, and quantum computing.
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... In 1971, at the age of 38, he was appointed chair of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, overseeing its expansion from fewer than 10 professors to 50 and making it one of the strongest computer science departments in the country. Based on his achievements there, Columbia University in 1979 invited him to found its Computer Science Department.
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... In 2012, his 80th birthday was commemorated by a symposium at Columbia University to celebrate his pioneering research and other contributions to computer science. Traub always described himself as lucky: Lucky in his early life that his parents were able to flee Nazi Germany in 1939 and settle in New York City; that he had a knack for math and problem solving just when those skills were needed; that a fellow student's prescient suggestion led him to visit IBM's Watson Laboratories where he first encountered computers.
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