Steven Skiena
Steven Sol Skiena | |
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | Stony Brook University (1988–present) |
Doctoral advisor | Herbert Edelsbrunner |
Steven Sol Skiena (born January 30, 1961) is a Computer Scientist and Distinguished Teaching Professor of
He was co-founder of General Sentiment, a social media and news analytics company, and served as Chief Science Officer from 2009 until it shut down in 2015.[2] His research interests include
Skiena has worked on algorithmic problems in synthetic biology, and, in particular, issues of optimal gene design for a given protein under various constraints. In collaboration with virologist Eckard Wimmer, he has worked to computationally design synthetic viruses for use as attenuated vaccines.[5] Their Synthetic Attenuated Virus Engineering (SAVE) approach has been validated in flu[6] and experiments with other viruses are ongoing. A popular account of this work appears in Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazare's Natural Computing.[7]
Skiena played a role in the conception of the Apple iPad. In 1988, Skiena and his team won a competition run by Apple to design the Computer of the Year 2000.[8] Their design, a tablet featuring a touch screen, GPS, and wireless communications was similar in many regards to the iPad as released by Apple in 2010.[9]
Bibliography
- Skiena, Steven (2017). The Data Science Design Manual. ISBN 978-3319554433.
- Skiena, Steven; Ward, Charles (2013). ISBN 978-1107041370.[10]
- Skiena, Steven (2010). The Algorithm Design Manual (2nd ed.). ISBN 978-1-849-96720-4.[11]
- Skiena, Steven; Revilla, Miguel (2003). Programming Challenges: The Programming Contest Training Manual (1st ed.). ISBN 0-387-00163-8.[12]
- Skiena, Steven (2001). Calculated Bets: Computers, Gambling, and Mathematical Modeling to Win (Outlooks) (1st ed.). ISBN 0-521-00962-6.[13]
- Pemmaraju, Sriram; Skiena, Steven (15 October 2009). Computational Discrete Mathematics: Combinatorics and Graph Theory with Mathematics (1st ed.). ISBN 978-0-521-12146-0.[14]
References
- ^ Distinguished Teaching Professor Award: Steven Skiena Archived 2017-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, Stony Brook CS, accessed 2017-10-03.
- ^ General Sentiment personnel page Archived 2012-06-11 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ [1] Steve Yegge's blog
- ^ Steven Skiena: 2001 Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award, IEEE Computer Society, accessed 2017-10-03.
- PMID 18583614.
- PMID 20543832.
- ^ Natural Computing; Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazare, W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
- S2CID 18112498.
- ^ James Barron (Jan 28, 2010). "Apple's New Device Looks Like a Winner. From 1988". New York Times.
- ^ Reviews of Where Historical Figures Really Rank: Ernest Davis (2014), SIAM News [2]; Nicholas Mattei (2014), ACM SIGACT News 45 (2): 40–42, .
- ^ Review of The Algorithm Design Manual: Neelakantan Kartha (2011), ACM SIGACT News 42 (4): 29–31, .
- ^ Review of Programming Challenges: A. M. Tenenbaum (2003), ACM Computing Reviews [3].
- ^ Reviews of Calculated Bets:
Michael Ward (2002), Math. Gaz. 86 (507): 565–566, doi:10.2307/3621199; James H. Albert (2002), American Statistician 56 (4): 329–330,JSTOR 3087358; Steven Byrnes (2007), Math. Horizons 14 (3): 28,JSTOR 25678674.
- ^ Review of Computational Discrete Mathematics: Martha Patricia Niño Mojica (2005), Leonardo [4].
External links
- Home page
- Steven Skiena publications indexed by Google Scholar