About Jonathan Shewchuk
Born 1953. Jonathan Shewchuk is a Canadian engineer, mathematician, computer scientist and university teacher.
Jonathan Richard Shewchuk is a Professor in Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
He obtained his B.S. in Physics and Computing Science from Simon Fraser University in 1990, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, the latter in 1997.
He conducts research in scientific computing, computational geometry (especially mesh generation, numerical robustness, surface reconstruction), numerical methods, and physically based animation.
He is also the author of Three Sins of Authors In Computer Science And Math.
In 2003, he was awarded the J. H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software for writing the Triangle software package, which computes high-quality unstructured triangular meshes.
He appears in online course videos of CS 61B: Data Structures class in University of California, Berkeley.
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Who is Jonathan Shewchuk?
Canadian computer scientist
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Jonathan Shewchuk was born in 1953 in Cranbrook.
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Jonathan Shewchuk is an engineer, mathematician, computer scientist and university teacher.
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Jonathan Shewchuk is Canadian.
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