James H. Davenport

James Davenport
James Davenport in 2001
Born James Harold Davenport
(1953-10-15) 15 October 1953
Scientific career
Fields Cryptography
Computer algebra systems[1]
Institutions University of Cambridge
University of Bath
Thesis On the integration of algebraic functions (1979)
Doctoral advisor John Peter Fitch
Arthur Charles Norman[2]
Website people.bath.ac.uk/masjhd

James Harold Davenport (born 15 October 1953) is a British computer scientist who works in computer algebra. Having done his PhD and early research at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, he is the Hebron and Medlock Professor of Information Technology at the University of Bath in Bath, England.[1][3]

Early Work & Education

In 1969, the team that developed the ATM at IBM Hursley (UK) used parts from that project to build an IBM School Computer, as a community outreach project, and it toured the region. When it came to James Davenport’s school, he (at age 16) discovered that, although it was ostensibly a six-digit computer, the microcode had access to a 12-digit internal register to do multiply/divide. He therefore used this to implement Draim's algorithm from his father's book, The Higher Arithmetic, and was testing eight-digit numbers for primality until the teacher’s patience wore out. [4] He worked in a government laboratory for nine months, again writing and using multiword arithmetic, but also using his knowledge of number theory to solve a problem in hashing, which earned him his first published paper at 18. He went to Cambridge University (Bachelor’s in 1974, Master’s in 1978, and PhD in 1980), to IBM Yorktown Heights for a year, back to Cambridge as a Research Fellow, to Grenoble for a year, before going to the relatively new University of Bath "for a couple of years" in 1983. [5]

Research

Davenport is an author of a textbook about computer algebra and of many papers.[6][7][8][9] He has been Project Chair of the European OpenMath Project and its successor Thematic Network, with responsibilities for aligning OpenMath and MathML, producing Content Dictionaries and supervised a Reduce-based OpenMath/MathML translator, and was Treasurer of the European Mathematical Trust. He was Founding Editor-in-Chief of the London Mathematical Society's Journal of Computation and Mathematics.[10]

Personal life

Davenport is the son of Harold Davenport.

Currently (January-June 2017) a Fulbright CyberSecurity Scholar at New York University [11] and maintains a blog [12]

References

  1. 1 2 James H. Davenport publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ↑ James H. Davenport at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ James H. Davenport's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  4. ↑ http://www.computingreviews.com/browse/browse_reviewers.cfm?reviewer_id=107523
  5. ↑ http://www.computingreviews.com/browse/browse_reviewers.cfm?reviewer_id=107523
  6. ↑ Davenport, James Harold. On the integration of algebraic functions. Berlin ; New York : Springer, 1981. 197 p. ; 25 cm. ISBN 978-0-387-10290-0 (paperback)
  7. ↑ Computer algebra : systems and algorithms for algebraic computation / J.H. Davenport, Y. Siret, E. Tournier ; translated from the French by A. Davenport and J.H. Davenport. London : San Diego : Academic Press, 1988. xix, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN 978-0-12-204230-0
  8. ↑ EUROCAL ’87 : European Conference on Computer Algebra, Leipzig, GDR, June 2–5, 1987 : proceedings / J.H. Davenport (ed.). Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1989. viii, 499 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. ISBN 978-0-387-51517-5 (New York : acid-free paper) ISBN 978-3-540-51517-3 (Berlin : acid-free paper)
  9. ↑ Mathematical knowledge management : second international conference, MKM 2003, Bertinoro, Italy, February 16–18, 2003 : proceedings / Andrea Asperti, Bruno Buchberger, James H. Davenport (eds.).
  10. ↑ London Mathematical Society Journal of Computation and Mathematics: Editorial; Aims and Scope Archived December 16, 2010, at WebCite
  11. ↑ http://people.bath.ac.uk/masjhd/
  12. ↑ http://staff.bath.ac.uk/masjhd/blogplain.html
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