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'''James Harold Davenport''' (born 15 October 1953) is a British [[computer scientist]] who works in [[computer algebra]]. Having done his PhD and early research at the [[Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge]], he is the Hebron and Medlock Professor of Information Technology at the [[University of Bath]] in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], [[England]].<ref name="googlescholar"/><ref name="scopus">{{Scopus|id=7102649878}}</ref>
'''James Harold Davenport''' (born 26 September 1953) is a British [[computer scientist]] who works in [[computer algebra]]. Having done his PhD and early research at the [[Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge]], he is the Hebron and Medlock Professor of Information Technology at the [[University of Bath]] in [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], [[England]].<ref name="googlescholar"/><ref name="scopus">{{Scopus id}}</ref>


==Early Work & Education==
==Education==
Davenport was educated at [[Marlborough College]], and was then a student at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Marlborough College Register |date=1997 |page=492 |edition=11th}}</ref> He was awarded a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in 1974, which was converted to a [[Master of Arts]] degree in 1978, and a [[Master of Mathematics]] in 2011. He was awarded a [[PhD]] in 1980.<ref name="mathgene"/><ref name=dphd>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Cambridge|url=https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/16u99e0/44CAM_ALMA21431259290003606|doi=|title=On the integration of algebraic functions|first= James Harold|last=Davenport|date=1979|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.453038}}|website=cam.ac.uk|oclc=797099982}}</ref>
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In 1969, the team that developed the ATM at IBM Hursley (UK) used parts from that project to build an IBM School Computer, as a community outreach project, and it toured the region. When it came to James Davenport’s school, he (at age 16) discovered that, although it was ostensibly a six-digit computer, the microcode had access to a 12-digit internal register to do multiply/divide. He therefore used this to implement Draim's algorithm from his father's book, The Higher Arithmetic, and was testing eight-digit numbers for primality until the teacher’s patience wore out. <ref>http://www.computingreviews.com/browse/browse_reviewers.cfm?reviewer_id=107523</ref> He worked in a government laboratory for nine months, again writing and using multiword arithmetic, but also using his knowledge of number theory to solve a problem in hashing, which earned him his first published paper at 18. He went to Cambridge University (Bachelor’s in 1974, Master’s in 1978, and PhD in 1980), to IBM Yorktown Heights for a year, back to Cambridge as a Research Fellow, to Grenoble for a year, before going to the relatively new University of Bath “for a couple of years" in 1983. <ref>http://www.computingreviews.com/browse/browse_reviewers.cfm?reviewer_id=107523</ref>


==Career and research==
==Research==
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In 1969, the team that developed the [[automated teller machine]] in the United Kingdom at [[IBM Hursley]] used parts from that project to build an IBM School Computer. It was a community outreach project, and it went on tour. When it came to Marlborough College, Davenport, aged 16, discovered that, although it was ostensibly a six-digit computer, the [[microcode]] had access to a 12-digit internal register to do multiply/divide. He used this to implement Draim's algorithm from his father [[Harold Davenport]]'s book, ''The Higher Arithmetic'', and tested eight-digit numbers for [[prime number|primality]].<ref name="CR">{{cite web |title=Computing Reviews, Davenport, James |url=http://www.computingreviews.com/browse/browse_reviewers.cfm?reviewer_id=107523 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001183721/http://www.computingreviews.com/browse/browse_reviewers.cfm?reviewer_id=107523 |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 October 2019 |date=1 October 2019}}</ref>
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Davenport is an author of a textbook about computer algebra and of many papers.<ref>Davenport, James Harold. ''On the integration of algebraic functions''. Berlin ; New York : Springer, 1981. 197 p. ; 25&nbsp;cm. {{ISBN|978-0-387-10290-0}} (paperback)</ref><ref>''Computer algebra : systems and algorithms for algebraic computation'' / J.H. Davenport, Y. Siret, E. Tournier ; translated from the French by A. Davenport and J.H. Davenport. London : San Diego : Academic Press, 1988. xix, 267 p. : ill. ; 24&nbsp;cm. {{ISBN|978-0-12-204230-0}}</ref><ref>EUROCAL ’87 : European Conference on Computer Algebra, Leipzig, GDR, June 2–5, 1987 : proceedings / J.H. Davenport (ed.). Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1989. viii, 499 p. : ill. ; 25&nbsp;cm. {{ISBN|978-0-387-51517-5}} (New York : acid-free paper) {{ISBN|978-3-540-51517-3}} (Berlin : acid-free paper)</ref><ref>Mathematical knowledge management : second international conference, MKM 2003, Bertinoro, Italy, February 16–18, 2003 : proceedings / Andrea Asperti, Bruno Buchberger, James H. Davenport (eds.).</ref> He has been Project Chair of the European OpenMath Project and its successor Thematic Network, with responsibilities for aligning [[OpenMath]] and [[MathML]], producing Content Dictionaries and supervised a Reduce-based OpenMath/MathML translator, and was Treasurer of the European Mathematical Trust. He was Founding Editor-in-Chief of the [[London Mathematical Society]]'s Journal of Computation and Mathematics.<ref>[http://www.lms.ac.uk/jcm/editorial.html London Mathematical Society Journal of Computation and Mathematics: Editorial; Aims and Scope] {{webarchive |url=http://www.webcitation.org/5v0am8MK6?url=http://www.lms.ac.uk/jcm/editorial.html |date=December 16, 2010 }}</ref>


Between school and university, Davenport worked in a government laboratory for nine months, again writing and using multiword arithmetic, but also using [[number theory]] to solve a problem in [[Cryptographic hash function|hashing]], which was published. He was at [[IBM Yorktown Heights]] for a year, and returned to Cambridge as a [[Research Fellow]]. He went to [[University of Grenoble|Grenoble]] for a year, before taking a post at the University of Bath in 1983.<ref name="CR"/>
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==Personal life==
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Davenport is the son of [[Harold Davenport]].


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Davenport is an author of a textbook about computer algebra and of many papers.<ref>Davenport, James Harold. ''On the integration of algebraic functions''. Berlin; New York : Springer, 1981. 197 p.; 25&nbsp;cm. {{ISBN|978-0-387-10290-0}} (paperback)</ref><ref>''Computer algebra : systems and algorithms for algebraic computation'' / J.H. Davenport, Y. Siret, E. Tournier; translated from the French by A. Davenport and J.H. Davenport. London : San Diego : Academic Press, 1988. xix, 267 p. : ill.; 24&nbsp;cm. {{ISBN|978-0-12-204230-0}}</ref><ref>EUROCAL ’87 : European Conference on Computer Algebra, Leipzig, GDR, June 2–5, 1987 : proceedings / J.H. Davenport (ed.). Berlin; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1989. viii, 499 p. : ill.; 25&nbsp;cm. {{ISBN|978-0-387-51517-5}} (New York : acid-free paper) {{ISBN|978-3-540-51517-3}} (Berlin : acid-free paper)</ref><ref>Mathematical knowledge management : second international conference, MKM 2003, Bertinoro, Italy, February 16–18, 2003 : proceedings / Andrea Asperti, Bruno Buchberger, James H. Davenport (eds.).</ref> He has been Project Chair of the European OpenMath Project and its successor Thematic Network, with responsibilities for aligning [[OpenMath]] and [[MathML]], producing Content Dictionaries and supervised a [[Reduce (computer algebra system)|Reduce]]-based OpenMath/MathML translator, and was Treasurer of the European Mathematical Trust. He was Founding Editor-in-Chief of the [[London Mathematical Society]]'s ''[[Journal of Computation and Mathematics]]''.<ref>[http://www.lms.ac.uk/jcm/editorial.html London Mathematical Society Journal of Computation and Mathematics: Editorial; Aims and Scope] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219164430/http://www.lms.ac.uk/jcm/editorial.html |date=19 December 2008 }}</ref>
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Currently (January-June 2017) a Fulbright CyberSecurity Scholar at New York University <ref>http://people.bath.ac.uk/masjhd/</ref> and maintains a blog <ref>http://staff.bath.ac.uk/masjhd/blogplain.html</ref>

===Awards and honours===
Davenport was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science in September 2019 by the [[West University of Timişoara]], Romania. This was in recognition of his pioneering and ongoing work in [[computer algebra system]]s and theory of [[symbolic computation]].

In 2014, Davenport was awarded a [[National Teaching Fellowship]] by the [[Higher Education Academy]].

He was awarded the Bronze Medal of the [[University of Helsinki]] in 2001.

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From January to June 2017 Davenport was a [[Fulbright Scholar|Fulbright CyberSecurity Scholar]] at [[New York University]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://people.bath.ac.uk/masjhd/|title = James Davenport's Home Page}}</ref> and maintained a blog<ref>http://staff.bath.ac.uk/masjhd/blogplain.html</ref> over the same period.

In 2024, he was awarded Honorary Fellowship of [[British Computer Society|BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT]] after many years service, including as a Vice-President.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Roll of Honorary Fellows |url=https://www.bcs.org/events/awards-and-competitions/honorary-fellowship-of-bcs/roll-of-honorary-fellows/ |access-date=2024-09-29 |website=BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT |language=en-GB}}</ref>

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==Personal life==
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Davenport is the son of the mathematician [[Harold Davenport]].


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James Davenport
TD CMath CITP FBCS FIMA
Davenport in 2001
Born
James Harold Davenport

(1953-09-26) 26 September 1953 (age 71)[citation needed]
EducationMarlborough College
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
AwardsNational Teaching Fellowship (2014)
Scientific career
FieldsCryptography
Computer algebra systems[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Bath
ThesisOn the integration of algebraic functions (1979)
Doctoral advisorJohn ffitch
Arthur Norman[2]
Websitepeople.bath.ac.uk/masjhd Edit this at Wikidata

James Harold Davenport (born 26 September 1953) is a British computer scientist who works in computer algebra. Having done his PhD and early research at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, he is the Hebron and Medlock Professor of Information Technology at the University of Bath in Bath, England.[1][3]

Education

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Davenport was educated at Marlborough College, and was then a student at Trinity College, Cambridge.[4] He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974, which was converted to a Master of Arts degree in 1978, and a Master of Mathematics in 2011. He was awarded a PhD in 1980.[2][5]

Career and research

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In 1969, the team that developed the automated teller machine in the United Kingdom at IBM Hursley used parts from that project to build an IBM School Computer. It was a community outreach project, and it went on tour. When it came to Marlborough College, Davenport, aged 16, discovered that, although it was ostensibly a six-digit computer, the microcode had access to a 12-digit internal register to do multiply/divide. He used this to implement Draim's algorithm from his father Harold Davenport's book, The Higher Arithmetic, and tested eight-digit numbers for primality.[6]

Between school and university, Davenport worked in a government laboratory for nine months, again writing and using multiword arithmetic, but also using number theory to solve a problem in hashing, which was published. He was at IBM Yorktown Heights for a year, and returned to Cambridge as a Research Fellow. He went to Grenoble for a year, before taking a post at the University of Bath in 1983.[6]

Davenport is an author of a textbook about computer algebra and of many papers.[7][8][9][10] He has been Project Chair of the European OpenMath Project and its successor Thematic Network, with responsibilities for aligning OpenMath and MathML, producing Content Dictionaries and supervised a Reduce-based OpenMath/MathML translator, and was Treasurer of the European Mathematical Trust. He was Founding Editor-in-Chief of the London Mathematical Society's Journal of Computation and Mathematics.[11]

Awards and honours

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Davenport was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science in September 2019 by the West University of Timişoara, Romania. This was in recognition of his pioneering and ongoing work in computer algebra systems and theory of symbolic computation.

In 2014, Davenport was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy.

He was awarded the Bronze Medal of the University of Helsinki in 2001.

From January to June 2017 Davenport was a Fulbright CyberSecurity Scholar at New York University,[12] and maintained a blog[13] over the same period.

In 2024, he was awarded Honorary Fellowship of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT after many years service, including as a Vice-President.[14]

Personal life

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Davenport is the son of the mathematician Harold Davenport.

References

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  1. ^ a b James H. Davenport publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ a b James H. Davenport at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ James H. Davenport publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  4. ^ Marlborough College Register (11th ed.). 1997. p. 492.
  5. ^ Davenport, James Harold (1979). On the integration of algebraic functions. cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 797099982. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.453038.
  6. ^ a b "Computing Reviews, Davenport, James". 1 October 2019. Archived from the original on 1 October 2019.
  7. ^ Davenport, James Harold. On the integration of algebraic functions. Berlin; New York : Springer, 1981. 197 p.; 25 cm. ISBN 978-0-387-10290-0 (paperback)
  8. ^ Computer algebra : systems and algorithms for algebraic computation / J.H. Davenport, Y. Siret, E. Tournier; translated from the French by A. Davenport and J.H. Davenport. London : San Diego : Academic Press, 1988. xix, 267 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 978-0-12-204230-0
  9. ^ EUROCAL ’87 : European Conference on Computer Algebra, Leipzig, GDR, June 2–5, 1987 : proceedings / J.H. Davenport (ed.). Berlin; New York : Springer-Verlag, c1989. viii, 499 p. : ill.; 25 cm. ISBN 978-0-387-51517-5 (New York : acid-free paper) ISBN 978-3-540-51517-3 (Berlin : acid-free paper)
  10. ^ Mathematical knowledge management : second international conference, MKM 2003, Bertinoro, Italy, February 16–18, 2003 : proceedings / Andrea Asperti, Bruno Buchberger, James H. Davenport (eds.).
  11. ^ London Mathematical Society Journal of Computation and Mathematics: Editorial; Aims and Scope Archived 19 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ "James Davenport's Home Page".
  13. ^ http://staff.bath.ac.uk/masjhd/blogplain.html
  14. ^ "Roll of Honorary Fellows". BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
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