Stephen Emmott

Stephen Emmott (2006)

Stephen J. Emmott (born June 3, 1960 in Keighley ) is a British university professor , author and scientist working in the field of scientific computing (Computational Science). Emmott became internationally known for his book Ten Billion .

Life

Emmott laid in 1987 at the University of York , the Bachelor exams in science Experimental Psychology from. After graduating there, he went to the University of Sterling in Stirling , Scotland , where he received his doctorate in Computational Neuroscience in 1993 . From 1993 to 1996 he worked at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill , New Jersey , USA , and from 1997 to 2001 he was director and chief scientist at the Advanced Research Laboratory of the NCR Corporation in Duluth (Georgia) , USA. Since 2004 he has been Head of Scientific Computing at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England .

Emmott is visiting professor at University College London and the University of Oxford .

Fonts (selection)

• The Visual Processing of Text. PhD thesis at the University of Stirling, 1993.
• Ten trillion. Vintage Books , New York City 2013, ISBN 978-0-345806475 .
  • Ten billion. Translated by AC Burger , Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013, ISBN 3-518-42385-1 . Suhrkamp 2014, ISBN 3-518-46560-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Stephen Emmott in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Stephen Emmott in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Article by Stephen Emmott in The Guardian (British newspaper).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 10 billion reading reports: Harald Welzer in ZEIT - Eberhard Rathgeb in FAZ - Interview in intellectures.de - Gerhard Klas in dradio -.