Fred's Background and Interests
Fred has a PhD in mathematics from Oregon State University under
W. E. Milne. His professional experience includes 4 years at TRW Systems, and
31 years at the Jet Propulsional laboratory where he retired as a Principal
Mathematician in 1998. He is currently the CEO of Math à la Carte,
Inc., a company formed to sell mathematical software on the internet.
Math à la Carte has rights to the the
MATH77/mathc90 Libraries developed at JPL. The MATH77
library was selected as one of the first JPL winners in the "Software of the
Year Award".
Work on multistep methods for ordinary differential equations has
received wide recognition.
Author of numerous articles published in professional journals and
conference proceedings.
Served as an Algorithms Editor of ACM Transactions on Mathematical
Software and Editor in Chief of Collected Algoithms of ACM.
In addition to his general interest in mathematical software, his special
interests include:
- Differential Equations
- Linear and Non-linear Constrained Optimization and Least Squares
- Quadrature
- Mixed Integer Optimization
- Fourier Analysis
- Interpolation
- One-Dimensional Zero finding
- Weird Bicycles.
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Revised: August 1, 2002