Clifford A. Pickover
| Clifford Alan Pickover | |
|---|---|
 |
|
| Born | August 15, 1957 |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
| Alma mater |
Yale University Franklin and Marshall College |
| Known for |
Pickover stalks Vampire numbers |
|
Website www |
|
Clifford Alan Pickover (born August 15, 1957) is an American author, editor, and columnist in the fields of science, mathematics, science fiction, innovation, and creativity and is employed at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York. He is Editor-in-Chief of the IBM Journal of Research and Development, has been granted more than 300 U.S. patents, is an elected Fellow for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and is author of more than 50 books, translated into dozens of languages.
Pickover was elected as a Fellow for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry for his “significant contributions to the general public’s understanding of science, reason, and critical inquiry through their scholarship, writing, and work in the media.” Other Fellows have included Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov. He has been awarded over 300 United States patents, and his The Math Book was winner of the 2011 Neumann Prize.
He received his Ph.D. in 1982 from Yale University's Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, where he conducted research on X-ray scattering and protein structure. Pickover graduated first in his class from Franklin and Marshall College, after completing the four-year undergraduate program in three years.
He joined IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1982, as a member of the speech synthesis group and later worked on the design-automation workstations. For much of his career, Pickover has published technical articles in the areas of scientific visualization, computer art, and recreational mathematics. Pickover is still employed at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he is the editor of the IBM Journal of Research and Development.
...
Wikipedia