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Leslie Blackett Wilson (born 1930[1]) was chair of Computing Science at the University of Stirling, appointed on August, 1979.[2] Previosly, 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, from 1951, he was a Senior Scientific Officer at the Naval Construction Research Establishment at Dunfermline.[1]

Has has written four books in computer science and combinatorics. His book Comparative Programming Languages was considered 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 extension of the stable marriage problem.[6][7]

He was the doctoral advisor of Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter. He has an Erdős number of three.

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 0201568853. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |separator=, |month=, |trans_chapter=, |chapterurl=, |laysummary=, and |lastauthoramp= (help). 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 0521249546. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |separator=, |trans_title=, |month=, |trans_chapter=, |chapterurl=, |laysummary=, and |lastauthoramp= (help)
  • 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 0521294924. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |separator=, |trans_title=, |month=, |trans_chapter=, |chapterurl=, |laysummary=, and |lastauthoramp= (help)
  • Page, Ewan Stafford; Wilson, Leslie Blackett (1978). Information, Representation and Manipulation in a Computer (second ed.). New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052129357X. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |laydate=, |separator=, |trans_title=, |month=, |trans_chapter=, |chapterurl=, |laysummary=, and |lastauthoramp= (help)

References

  1. ^ a b c Who's who in science in Europe : a biographical guide in science, technology, agriculture, and medicine. Detroit, MI, USA: Longman. 1984. p. 786. ISBN 058290109X.
  2. ^ Szwarcfiter, Jayme Luiz and 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:http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/135250.134553. {{cite journal}}: Check |doi= value (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help); External link in |doi= (help)
  4. ^ Reynolds, Chris (22 April 1989). "Computers in context". New Scientist. 1661: 63--64. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help)
  5. ^ a b Wilson, Leslie Blackett; Clark, Robert George (1993). Langages de Programmation Comparés. Paris: Addison-Wesley France. p. 452. ISBN 2879080606.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Google Scholar. "102 citations of: Wilson, Leslie Blackett, "Stable marriage assignment for unequal sets", BiT Numerical mathematics 10 (1970), 295--309". Retrieved 9 February 2012. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  7. ^ 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. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
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