B. David Saunders
Exact linear algebra research:    LinBox library at linalg.org.    Publications.
CIS Dept:    ACM, the Undergrad Computing Organization, CISGSA, the Grad Student Association.
Misc:    The STL Documentation at SGI ,    Clippings from the input stream.

Office Hours: contact Vicki Cherry, cherry@cis.udel.edu/302-831-2711, for appointment.
email: saunders@cis.udel.edu, Phone: 302-831-6238, fax: 302-831-8458, photo , vitae(pdf),
Snail mail: Dept of Computer and Information Sciences, / College of Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware, / Newark, / DE / 19716

Courses

  • Fall, 2008: CISC 367 Rapid Prototyping (1 cr)
  • Courses past: My course web pages.

    Student Activity Links:

  • Programming contests, Annual ACM Collegiate Programming Contests (and others).
  • ACM, UDel's student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.
  • UPE, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the international honor society for the Computing Sciences. John Cavazos is 2007/08 UPE advisor.
  • CISGSA, Computer Science Graduate Student Association.
  • LUG, the Linux Users Group.

    Computer Algebra Research:

  • LinBox, a C++ template library for exact linear algebra.
  • A publication list, some brief abstracts.
  • SIG Theory and ALG seminars. Discrete Math seminars.
  • The directory eecis.udel.edu:/usr/local/algebra/ contains Gap, Maple, NTL, Saclib, linbox, etc.
  • Journal of Symbolic Computation.
  • ECCAD 2008, is hosted by Weidong Liao, Sheperd College, Shepherdstown, WV, on Saturday May 10, 2008 at the National Conservation and Training Center (NCTC).
  • The ECCAD conferences.
  • ISSAC '08, July 20-23, 2008, Hagenberg, Austria
  • SNC '07, July 25-27 and Pasco '07, July 27-28, London, Ontario, then ISSAC '07, July 29-Aug 1, Waterloo, Ontario
  • ISSAC '06, July 9-12, Genoa, Italy,

    Misc.

  • ILAS is the International Linear Algebra Society.
  • SIGSAM is the ACM Special Interest Group on Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation.
  • The Standard Template Library.
  • The STL Documentation at SGI .
  • Take a walk with the Wilmington Trail Club.

    I study computationalgebraicomputation. ...You get the idea, something to do with computing and something to do with pushing mathematical symbols around. The words are run together to indicate the fact that the practice of algebra and of computing have much in common, the more so in the discipline called Computer Algebra. I am specifically interested in computational symbolic linear algebra, (matrix problems where the entries are integers and/or expressions in parameters and indeterminates and where exact, complete solutions are sought). To that end I care about anything it takes: algorithms, languages, machines, system design issues, parallel and distributed computing, ....

    B. David Saunders, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, University of Delaware