William F. (Bill) Smyth                


Welcome to my home page!
You are Visitor No. 42515 since 1 December 2001.


Regarded at its birth in 2007 as a one-off event, StringMasters seems to be here to stay: in 2011 there were THREE of them and in 2012 there will be at least another three. For history and details visit the StringMasters website.

Papers emerging from StringMasters 2007 & 2008 have been published in a special issue 97-3 (2009) of Fundamenta Informaticae. Papers coming out of the 2009 & 2010 StringMasters meetings will appear in a special issue of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms; another special issue of the same journal will publish the papers from the 2011 meetings.

IWOCA 2011, the International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms, was held in Canada. This year in India -- don't miss it!

Current Status
Emeritus Professor, Algorithms Research Group, Department of Computing & Software (C&S), McMaster University
Visiting Professor, Algorithm Design Group, Department of Informatics, King's College London
Associate Member, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McMaster University
Office
Information Technology Building (ITB) 130 (= 10 X a lucky number)
Telephone
1-905-525-9140 ext. 23436
FAX
1-905-524-0340
Electronic Mail
smyth``AT''mcmaster``FULL STOP''ca
Education
1990 Curtin University of Technology, Ph.D. (Computing Science)
1983 University of Ottawa, M.Sc. (Applied Mathematics)
1957 University of Toronto, B.A. (Pure Mathematics)

Areas of Interest (see C&S Algorithms Research Group)

Combinatorial Algorithms, Especially Algorithms on Strings
Graph Theory & Its Applications
Various Social/Cultural Issues

Membership in Professional Organizations

1966 Association for Computing Machinery
1966 American Mathematical Society
1966 Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics
1974 Mathematical Association of America
1983 British Computer Society (Fellow)
1987 Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia
1989 European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
1990 Institute of Combinatorics & Its Applications (Foundation Fellow)
1990 Engineering Council (Chartered Engineer)
1995 Society for Academic Freedom & Scholarship
1995 Organization for Quality Education

Experience
Current Teaching & Supervision
Refereed Publications
Selected Publications
Simon's Collection of Test Strings
Family
Last revised: Wednesday, 01-Feb-2012 16:44:07 EST