Roberto Tamassia

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Roberto Tamassia is an

algorithms for graph drawing, computational geometry, and computer security
; he is also the author of several textbooks.

Professional biography

Tamassia received a laurea (the Italian equivalent of an M.S. degree) from the

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, and La Sapienza.[1]

Tamassia is an

Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures (1997, 1999, and 2001) and the annual Workshop on Algorithms and Experiments (2005). He is founding editor-in-chief (since 1996) of the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications[4]
as well as belonging to several other journal editorial boards.

Awards and honors

In 2006, the

IEEE Fellow.[1][6][7] In 2012 he was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to graph drawing, algorithms and data structures and to computer science education",[8] and also named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[9]

Personal life

Tamassia was married to Isabel Cruz, also a noted computer scientist, until her death in 2021.[10]

Books

  • Goodrich, M. T.; Tamassia, R. (1998), Data Structures and Algorithms in Java, Wiley. Fourth edition, 2005.
  • Di Battista, G.; Eades, P.; Tamassia, R.; Tollis, I. G. (1999), Graph Drawing, Prentice-Hall.
  • Goodrich, M. T.; Tamassia, R. (2002), Algorithm Design, Wiley.
  • Goodrich, M. T.; Tamassia, R.; Mount, D. (2003), Data Structures and Algorithms in C++, Wiley

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Curriculum vitae from Tamassia's web site, retrieved 2009-07-16.
  2. ^ TCS Genealogy, ACM SIGACT.
  3. ^ Profs. Preparata and Tamassia Among Most Highly Cited Computer Scientists, Brown Univ. Computer Science Dept., February 19, 2007.
  4. ^ Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications web site.
  5. doi:10.1109/MC.2008.45
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  6. ^ Roberto Tamassia Named IEEE Fellow, Brown Univ. Computer Science Dept., December 12, 2008.
  7. ^ "Introducing the new class of fellows", The Institute, March 2009.
  8. ^ ACM Fellows Named for Computing Innovations that Advance Technologies in Information Age Archived 2012-12-12 at the Wayback Machine, ACM, December 11, 2012.
  9. doi:10.1126/science.338.6111.1166
    .
  10. ^ Tamassia, Roberto, Isabel Cruz, retrieved 2023-05-25

External links

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