George Forsythe

George Elmer Forsythe (January 8, 1917 – April 9, 1972) was an American computer scientist and numerical analyst who founded and led Stanford University's Computer Science Department.

For the U.S. Army general, see George I. Forsythe. For other people, see George Forsyth (disambiguation).

George Elmer Forsythe
BornJanuary 8, 1917
State College, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedApril 9, 1972 (1972-04-10) (aged 55)
Stanford, California, U.S.
Alma materSwarthmore College
Brown University
SpouseAlexandra Illmer Forsythe
ChildrenDiana E. Forsythe
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, meteorology and computer science
InstitutionsStanford University
Boeing
National Bureau of Standards
Doctoral advisorWilliam Feller
Jacob Tamarkin
Doctoral studentsRichard Brent
J. Alan George
Cleve Moler
Beresford Parlett

Forsythe came to Stanford in the Mathematics Department in 1959, and served as professor and chairman of the Computer Science department from 1965 until his death. He served as the president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), coauthored four books on computer science and a fifth on meteorology, and edited more than 75 other books on computer science.

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