Biography:Catherine McGeoch
Catherine Cole McGeoch is an American computer scientist specializing in empirical algorithmics and heuristics for NP-hard problems.[1] She is currently Beitzel Professor in Technology and Society at Amherst College.[2] She has been the Editor in Chief of ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics and was a member of the ACM Publications Board.[3]
Biography
McGeoch graduated summa cum laude from Butler University in 1981. She then earned her M.S. (1983) and her Ph.D.(1986) from Carnegie Mellon University, supervised by Jon Bentley.[4] She is the author of A Guide to Experimental Algorithmics (ISBN:9781107001732) and Adiabatic Quantum Computation and Quantum Annealing: Theory and Practice (ISBN:9781627053358).
In 2013, she published one of the first detailed benchmarks of D-Wave's Quantum Computer versus conventional software. Her work was featured in an Amherst College press release and was subsequently cited in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times , The Economist and The New Yorker.[5][6][7][8] Starting in May 2014 she took a leave of absence from Amherst College to work full-time for D-Wave.[9]
References
- ↑ "People of ACM: Catherine McGeoch". http://www.acm.org/membership/acm-bulletin-archive/2014-bulletins/poa-mcgeoch. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
- ↑ "Amherst Media". Amherst College. https://www.amherst.edu/media/view/429327/original/Catalog%20Section%20I.pdf. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
- ↑ "Publications Board". Association for Computing Machinery. http://util.acm.org/boards/listing.cfm?id=82. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
- ↑ Catherine McGeoch at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Amherst Prof Devises First Head-to-Head Speed Test with Conventional Computing, and the Quantum Computer Wins - Amherst College". Amherst.edu. https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/news/faculty/node/466477. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ↑ "A Quantum Computer Aces Its Test". The New York Times. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/a-quantum-computer-aces-its-test/. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ↑ "Quantum computing: Faster, slower—or both at once? - The Economist". The Economist. 18 May 2013. https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21578027-first-real-world-contests-between-quantum-computers-and-standard-ones-faster. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ↑ "A Quantum Leap in Computing?". The New Yorker. 18 May 2013. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/05/a-quantum-leap-in-computing.html. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- ↑ "Catherine C. McGeoch". Cs.amherst.edu. http://www.cs.amherst.edu/ccm/. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine McGeoch.
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