Christopher Stewart Wallace
Christopher "Chris" Stewart Wallace (born October 26, 1933 , † August 7, 2004 ) was an Australian computer scientist and physicist.
Life
Wallace received his PhD from the University of Sydney in 1959 . In 1968 he received a call to Monash University to establish the Department of Information Science (later renamed Computer Science ). In 1996 he retired.
Wallace was a member of the Australian Computing Society and the Association for Computing Machinery . From the latter he received the status of Fellow in 1995 .
Wallace was married to Judy Ogilvie, operator of SILLIAC, the first Australian supercomputer.
Scientific work
Chris Wallace developed a program to analyze cosmic rays on Sydney's first computer .
His scientific work includes contributions to multiplication ( Wallace Tree multiplier ) and random number generation with computers as well as the minimum message length principle , a formulation of Occam's razor .
Publications (selection)
- CS Wallace, Statistical and Inductive Inference by Minimum Message Length, Springer (Series: Information Science and Statistics), 2005, ISBN 0-387-23795-X (posthumous)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ ACM Fellows: Chris S. Wallace - Award Winner , accessed December 2, 2013.
- ↑ John Deane: SILLIAC - Vacuum tube super computer SILLIAC folk ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ABC Radio National: SILLIAC - Australia's first supercomputer built 50 years ago
- ^ Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia - CORE: Professor Chris Wallace
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wallace, Christopher Stewart |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wallace, Chris |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian computer scientist and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1933 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 2004 |