Carl Herbert Smith
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Carl Herbert Smith | |
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Born | 1950 |
Died | 2004 |
Nationality | USA |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | National Science Foundation Purdue University University of Maryland, College Park |
Carl Herbert Smith (1950–2004) was an American computer scientist. He was a pioneer in computational complexity theory and computational learning theory.
Smith was program manager of the National Science Foundation's theoretical computer science program, and editor of the , Theoretical Computer Science, and Fundamenta Informaticae. He held professorships at Purdue University and the University of Maryland, College Park. He organized the first conferences on in the U.S. in the 1980s. He earned a PhD from the State University at Buffalo in 1979, and received Habilitation degree from the University of Latvia in 1993. He was a member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.
He was the author of the popular textbooks and .
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