Leslie Blackett Wilson (born 1930[1]) was chair of Computing Science at the University of Stirling, appointed on 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]
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 edit
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]
Books edit
- Wilson, Leslie Blackett; Clark, Robert George (1993). Comparative programming languages (second ed.). Boston, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley. p. 374. ISBN 978-0-201-56885-1.. Translated into French.[5]
- Page, Ewan Stafford; Wilson, Leslie Blackett (1983). Information Representation and Manipulation Using Pascal. Cambridge Computer Science Texts. Vol. 15. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-521-24954-6.
- Page, Ewan Stafford; Wilson, Leslie Blackett (1979). An introduction to computational combinatorics. Cambridge Computer Science Texts. Vol. 9. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-521-29492-8.
- Page, Ewan Stafford; Wilson, Leslie Blackett (1978). Information, Representation and Manipulation in a Computer (second ed.). New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-29357-0.
References edit
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b Szwarcfiter, Jayme Luiz; Wilson, Leslie Blackett. "The cycle cover problem", University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Computing Laboratory, Report Series, no. 131, 1979.
- ^ King, Kim N. (1992). "The evolution of the programming languages course". ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Bulletin. 24 (1): 213–219. doi:10.1145/135250.134553.
- ^ Reynolds, Chris (22 April 1989). "Computers in context". New Scientist. 1661: 63–64.
- ^ a b Wilson, Leslie Blackett; Clark, Robert George (1993). Langages de Programmation Comparés. Paris: Addison-Wesley France. p. 452. ISBN 978-2-87908-060-4.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter". Currículo do Sistema de Currículos Lattes. Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico. Retrieved 11 February 2012.