Leslie Blackett Wilson

Leslie Blackett Wilson (born 1930[1]) was chair of Computing Science at the University of Stirling, appointed on August, 1979.[2] Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the Computing Laboratory of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He joined the Computing Laboratory in 1964. Before that, since 1951, he was a Senior Scientific Officer at the Naval Construction Research Establishment at Dunfermline.[2]

He has written four books in computer science and combinatorics. His book Comparative Programming Languages was regarded among the major textbooks on programming languages[3] and has received positive reviews since its first edition.[4] This book was translated into French in its second edition.[5] As a researcher, he is best known for his contributions to extensions of the stable marriage problem.[6][7]

He was the doctoral advisor of Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter.[8]

Education

Leslie Blackett Wilson got a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Durham University in 1951 and a D.Sc. degree from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1980.[1]

Books
  • Wilson, Leslie Blackett; Clark, Robert George (1993). Comparative programming languages (second ed.). Boston, MA, USA: Addison-Wesley. p. 374. ISBN 978-0-201-56885-1.. Translated into French.[5]
  • Page, Ewan Stafford; Wilson, Leslie Blackett (1983). Information Representation and Manipulation Using Pascal. Cambridge Computer Science Texts. 15. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. p. 284. ISBN 978-0-521-24954-6.
  • Page, Ewan Stafford; Wilson, Leslie Blackett (1979). An introduction to computational combinatorics. Cambridge Computer Science Texts. 9. New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-521-29492-8.
  • Page, Ewan Stafford; Wilson, Leslie Blackett (1978). Information, Representation and Manipulation in a Computer (second ed.). New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-29357-0.

References
  1. Who's who in science in Europe : a biographical guide in science, technology, agriculture, and medicine. Detroit, MI, USA: Longman. 1984. p. 786. ISBN 978-0-582-90109-4.
  2. Szwarcfiter, Jayme Luiz; Wilson, Leslie Blackett. "The cycle cover problem", University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Computing Laboratory, Report Series, no. 131, 1979.
  3. King, Kim N. (1992). "The evolution of the programming languages course". ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Bulletin. 24 (1): 213–219. doi:10.1145/135250.134553.
  4. Reynolds, Chris (22 April 1989). "Computers in context". New Scientist. 1661: 63–64.
  5. Wilson, Leslie Blackett; Clark, Robert George (1993). Langages de Programmation Comparés. Paris: Addison-Wesley France. p. 452. ISBN 978-2-87908-060-4.
  6. Google Scholar. "120 citations of: McVitie, David Glen and Wilson, Leslie Blackett, "The stable marriage problem", Communications of the ACM 14 (1971), 486--490". Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  7. Google Scholar. "102 citations of: McVitie, David Glen and Wilson, Leslie Blackett, "Stable marriage assignment for unequal sets", BiT Numerical Mathematics 10 (1970), 295--309". Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  8. "Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter". Currículo do Sistema de Currículos Lattes. Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
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