William F. (Bill) Smyth                


Welcome to my home page!
You are Visitor No. 33144 since 1 December 2001.
Regarded at its birth in 2007 as a one-off event, StringMasters seems to be here to stay! StringMasters 2009 was held in two instalments Down Under:
27-31 July: African StringMasters in Stellenbosch, South Africa
3-7 August: Aussie StringMasters in Perth, Western Australia
and will be held at end July next year in King's College London.

Check out the previous announcements (2007 & 2008) and lists of participants (2007 & 2008).

Papers emerging from StringMasters 2007 & 2008 are to be published in a special issue of Fundamenta Informaticae. Papers coming out of this year's StringMasters meetings will appear in a special issue of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms.

Current Status
Emeritus Professor, Algorithms Research Group, Department of Computing & Software (C&S), McMaster University
Visiting Professor, Algorithm Design Group, Department of Computer Science, King's College London
Adjunct Professorial Fellow & Co-Director, Centre for Stringology & Applications, Digital Ecosystems & Business Intelligence Institute, Curtin University of Technology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Computing & Information Science, University of Guelph
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
Simon's Collection of Test Strings
Family
Last revised: Monday, 26-Oct-2009 13:34:18 EDT