Dana S. Richards is a writer, mathematics popularizer and Associate Professor in Computer Science at George Mason University.
His research interests include comparisons of protein sequences, Steiner tree algorithms,The Steiner tree problem Authors: Frank Hwang, Dana Richards, Pawel Winter;North-Holland, 1992 information dissemination in networks, parallel heuristics, methodology for computationally intractable problems and parallel algorithms for median filters.Dana S Richards, George Mason University, National Science Foundation Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library He is the longtime bibliographer of polymath Martin Gardner.
Education and career Richards received an M.S. from the University of Virginia in 1976 and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under Chung Laung Liu in 1984.Dana Richards at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, and a Program Director of Theory of Computing at the National Science Foundation (June 1993 through May 1994).Awards National Science Foundation
He has written or edited seven booksBooks by Dana Richards ISBN.NET and numerous journal articles.Dana S. Richards Computer Science Bibliography at DBLP In addition, he is a reviewer for many journals, and has received numerous research awards. He became an Associate Professor of Computer Science at George Mason University in 1994.Dana Richards GMU: Biosketch
Martin Gardner Dana Richards was a friend of Martin Gardner going back to the 1970s,Speaker: Dana Richards Brigham Young University, Mar 22nd 2018Martin Gardner: A Documentary by Dana Richards martin-gardner.orgRichards, Dana (2018). Martin Gardner, Annotator G4G13, April 2018 - videoThe Legacy of Math Writer Martin Gardner NPR: All Things Considered, May 24, 2010 and in his writing and speaking he often memorialized and popularized Gardner's work.Meeting of the Puzzlers: Hundreds get together to celebrate Martin Gardner and recreational math By Dana Richards, Scientific American, June 2014Math Games of Martin Gardner Still Spur Innovation By Colm Mulcahy and Dana Richards, Scientific American, October 2014 In 2006 he edited The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems which collected all of Gardner's short puzzles in one volume.Dana Richards (Editor), Martin Gardner (Author), The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems, W. W. Norton, He wrote Gardner's obituary in ScienceRETROSPECTIVE: Martin Gardner (1914–2010) Science, 09 July 2010, Vol. 329, Issue 5988, pp. 157 and in 2023 he published a comprehensive bibliography of Gardner's works.The Bibliography of Martin Gardner Dana Richards (editor), Donald E. Knuth (foreword), June, 2023, Pub: Stanford Center for the Study of Language and Information,
Since Gardner's death in 2010 events called Celebration of Mind are held every October which include games, magic and puzzles in the Gardner tradition, and Richards is frequently featured at these events discussing Gardner's life and work.Algorithmic Puzzles and Martin Gardner Dana Richards CoM Oct 2020, Jan 22, 2021
Books The Bibliography of Martin Gardner, June, 2023 Dear Martin / Dear Marcello: Gardner and Truzzi on Skepticism by Dana Richards, April 28, 2017Dear Martin Dear Marcello: Gardner and Truzzi on Skeptic WorldScientific, p. 10 Problems in sorting and graph algorithms OCLC 12048476 The colossal book of short puzzles and problems The Mathemagician and Pied Puzzler Dana Richards, "Martin Gardner: A 'Documentary' ", in The Mathematician and the Pied Puzzler: A collection in tribute to Martin Gardner (1999), ed.
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