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'''Leslie Blackett Wilson''' (born 1930<ref name=whoswho>{{cite book|title=Who's who in science in Europe : a biographical guide in science, technology, agriculture, and medicine|year=1984|publisher=Longman|location=Detroit, MI, USA|isbn=978-0-582-90109-4|pages=786}}</ref>) was [[Chair (academic)|chair]] of [[Computer Science|Computing Science]] at the [[University of Stirling]], appointed on August, 1979.<ref name=cyclecover>[[Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter|Szwarcfiter, Jayme Luiz]]; Wilson, Leslie Blackett. [http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/131.pdf "The cycle cover problem"], [[University of Newcastle upon Tyne]], Computing Laboratory, Report Series, no. 131, 1979.</ref> Previously, he was a [[Senior lecturer|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 [[Admiralty Research Establishment|Naval Construction Research Establishment]] at [[Dunfermline]].<ref name=cyclecover/>
'''Leslie Blackett Wilson''' (born 1930<ref name=whoswho>{{cite book|title=Who's who in science in Europe : a biographical guide in science, technology, agriculture, and medicine|year=1984|publisher=Longman|location=Detroit, MI, USA|isbn=978-0-582-90109-4|pages=786}}</ref>) was [[Chair (academic)|chair]] of [[Computer Science|Computing Science]] at the [[University of Stirling]], appointed in August 1979.<ref name=cyclecover>[[Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter|Szwarcfiter, Jayme Luiz]]; Wilson, Leslie Blackett. [http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/131.pdf "The cycle cover problem"], [[University of Newcastle upon Tyne]], Computing Laboratory, Report Series, no. 131, 1979.</ref> Previously, he was a [[Senior lecturer|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 [[Admiralty Research Establishment|Naval Construction Research Establishment]] at [[Dunfermline]].<ref name=cyclecover/>


He has written four books in computer science and combinatorics. His book ''Comparative Programming Languages'' was regarded among the major textbooks on programming languages<ref>{{cite journal|last=King|first=Kim N.|title=The evolution of the programming languages course|journal=[[ACM SIGCSE Bulletin]]|year=1992|volume=24|issue=1|pages=213–219|doi=10.1145/135250.134553|doi-access=free}}</ref> and has received positive reviews since its first edition.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Reynolds|first=Chris|title=Computers in context|journal=[[New Scientist]]|date=22 April 1989|volume=1661|pages=63–64}}</ref> This book was translated into French in its second edition.<ref name=frenchbook>{{cite book|author1=Wilson, Leslie Blackett |author2=Clark, Robert George |title=Langages de Programmation Comparés|year=1993|publisher=Addison-Wesley France|location=Paris|isbn=978-2-87908-060-4|pages=452}}</ref> As a researcher, he is best known for his contributions to extensions of the [[stable marriage problem]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Google Scholar]]|title=120 citations of: McVitie, David Glen and Wilson, Leslie Blackett, "The stable marriage problem", Communications of the ACM 14 (1971), 486--490|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=14934269817571352688&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en|access-date=9 February 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Google Scholar]]|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=251438690644025335&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en|title=102 citations of: McVitie, David Glen and Wilson, Leslie Blackett, "Stable marriage assignment for unequal sets", BiT Numerical Mathematics 10 (1970), 295--309|access-date=9 February 2012}}</ref>
He has written four books in computer science and combinatorics. His book ''Comparative Programming Languages'' was regarded among the major textbooks on programming languages<ref>{{cite journal|last=King|first=Kim N.|title=The evolution of the programming languages course|journal=[[ACM SIGCSE Bulletin]]|year=1992|volume=24|issue=1|pages=213–219|doi=10.1145/135250.134553|doi-access=free}}</ref> and has received positive reviews since its first edition.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Reynolds|first=Chris|title=Computers in context|journal=[[New Scientist]]|date=22 April 1989|volume=1661|pages=63–64}}</ref> This book was translated into French in its second edition.<ref name=frenchbook>{{cite book|author1=Wilson, Leslie Blackett |author2=Clark, Robert George |title=Langages de Programmation Comparés|year=1993|publisher=Addison-Wesley France|location=Paris|isbn=978-2-87908-060-4|pages=452}}</ref> As a researcher, he is best known for his contributions to extensions of the [[stable marriage problem]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Google Scholar]]|title=120 citations of: McVitie, David Glen and Wilson, Leslie Blackett, "The stable marriage problem", Communications of the ACM 14 (1971), 486--490|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=14934269817571352688&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en|access-date=9 February 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Google Scholar]]|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=251438690644025335&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en|title=102 citations of: McVitie, David Glen and Wilson, Leslie Blackett, "Stable marriage assignment for unequal sets", BiT Numerical Mathematics 10 (1970), 295--309|access-date=9 February 2012}}</ref>

Latest revision as of 16:26, 30 September 2024

Leslie Blackett Wilson (born 1930[1]) was chair of Computing Science at the University of Stirling, appointed in 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

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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

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  • 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. Vol. 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. Vol. 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

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  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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 SIGCSE 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. ^ a b Wilson, Leslie Blackett; Clark, Robert George (1993). Langages de Programmation Comparés. Paris: Addison-Wesley France. p. 452. ISBN 978-2-87908-060-4.
  6. ^ "120 citations of: McVitie, David Glen and Wilson, Leslie Blackett, "The stable marriage problem", Communications of the ACM 14 (1971), 486--490". Google Scholar. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  7. ^ "102 citations of: McVitie, David Glen and Wilson, Leslie Blackett, "Stable marriage assignment for unequal sets", BiT Numerical Mathematics 10 (1970), 295--309". Google Scholar. 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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