Catherine McGeoch

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Catherine Cole McGeoch is an American computer scientist specializing in empirical algorithmics and heuristics for NP-hard problems. [1] She is currently Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society at Amherst College. [2] She has been the Editor in Chief of ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics and was a member of the ACM Publications Board. [3]

Biography

McGeoch graduated summa cum laude from Butler University in 1981. She then earned her M.S. (1983) and her Ph.D.(1986) from Carnegie Mellon University, supervised by Jon Bentley. [4] She is the author of A Guide to Experimental Algorithmics ( ISBN   9781107001732) and Adiabatic Quantum Computation and Quantum Annealing: Theory and Practice ( ISBN   9781627053358).

In 2013, she published one of the first detailed benchmarks of D-Wave's Quantum Computer versus conventional software. Her work was featured in an Amherst College press release and was subsequently cited in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times , The Economist and The New Yorker . [5] [6] [7] [8] Starting in May 2014 she took a leave of absence from Amherst College to work full-time for D-Wave. [9]

References

  1. ↑ "People of ACM: Catherine McGeoch". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "Amherst Media" (PDF). Amherst College. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Publications Board". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  4. ↑ Catherine McGeoch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ "Amherst Prof Devises First Head-to-Head Speed Test with Conventional Computing, and the Quantum Computer Wins - Amherst College". Amherst.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-01-02. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  6. ↑ "A Quantum Computer Aces Its Test". The New York Times . 8 May 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  7. ↑ "Quantum computing: Faster, slower—or both at once? - The Economist". The Economist. 18 May 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "A Quantum Leap in Computing?". The New Yorker. 18 May 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
  9. ↑ "Catherine C. McGeoch". Cs.amherst.edu. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
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