Richard J. Fateman

Richard J. Fateman is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Scientific Computing (SCI), with a focus on computer algebra systems, programming environments, and symbolic mathematical computation. Fateman received a BS in Physics and Mathematics from Union College in 1966 and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1971. He joined the Berkeley Computer Science faculty after teaching in the Mathematics department at MIT. He was instrumental in the development of Berkeley's VAX UNIX system and led the creation of the original Franz Lisp at Berkeley. He also served on the Common Lisp design committee and the IEEE 754 binary floating-point arithmetic standards committee. Fateman has authored over 75 technical papers and has been the principal investigator on grants from DOE, NSF, and various industrial firms.

Richard Fateman is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, known for his contributions to computer algebra, programming languages, and document image analysis. His research spans the development of systems like MACSYMA and Mathematica, focusing on symbolic computation and optical character recognition for typeset mathematics. Fateman's work explores the challenges of parsing and simplifying mathematical expressions, as well as the intersection of programming languages and computational mathematics. His publications address issues such as polynomial multiplication, interval arithmetic, and the recognition of mathematical content in scanned documents.