Leslie Blackett Wilson

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Leslie Blackett Wilson (born 1930 [1] ) was chair of Computing Science at the University of Stirling, appointed in August 1979. [2] Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the Computing Laboratory of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He joined the Computing Laboratory in 1964. Before that, since 1951, he was a Senior Scientific Officer at the Naval Construction Research Establishment at Dunfermline. [2]

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He has written four books in computer science and combinatorics. His book Comparative Programming Languages was regarded among the major textbooks on programming languages [3] and has received positive reviews since its first edition. [4] This book was translated into French in its second edition. [5] As a researcher, he is best known for his contributions to extensions of the stable marriage problem. [6] [7]

He was the doctoral advisor of Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter. [8]

Education

Leslie Blackett Wilson got a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Durham University in 1951 and a D.Sc. degree from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1980. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Who's who in science in Europe : a biographical guide in science, technology, agriculture, and medicine. Detroit, MI, USA: Longman. 1984. p. 786. ISBN   978-0-582-90109-4.
  2. 1 2 Szwarcfiter, Jayme Luiz; Wilson, Leslie Blackett. "The cycle cover problem", University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Computing Laboratory, Report Series, no. 131, 1979.
  3. King, Kim N. (1992). "The evolution of the programming languages course". ACM SIGCSE Bulletin . 24 (1): 213–219. doi: 10.1145/135250.134553 .
  4. Reynolds, Chris (22 April 1989). "Computers in context". New Scientist . 1661: 63–64.
  5. 1 2 Wilson, Leslie Blackett; Clark, Robert George (1993). Langages de Programmation Comparés. Paris: Addison-Wesley France. p. 452. ISBN   978-2-87908-060-4.
  6. "120 citations of: McVitie, David Glen and Wilson, Leslie Blackett, "The stable marriage problem", Communications of the ACM 14 (1971), 486--490". Google Scholar . Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  7. "102 citations of: McVitie, David Glen and Wilson, Leslie Blackett, "Stable marriage assignment for unequal sets", BiT Numerical Mathematics 10 (1970), 295--309". Google Scholar . Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  8. "Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter". Currículo do Sistema de Currículos Lattes . Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico . Retrieved 11 February 2012.