About Richard Fateman
Born 1946. Richard Fateman is an American engineer and computer scientist.
Richard J Fateman (born November 4, 1946) is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.
He received a BS in Physics and Mathematics from Union College in June, 1966, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in June, 1971. He was a major contributor to the Macsyma computer algebra system at MIT and later to the Franz Lisp system. His current interests include scientific programming environments; computer algebra systems; distributed computing; analysis of algorithms; programming and measurement of large systems; design and implementation of programming languages; and optical character recognition. In 1999, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Richard Fateman is the father of musician Johanna Fateman.
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American computer scientist
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Richard Fateman was born on 4 November 1946.
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Richard Fateman is an engineer and computer scientist.
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