Judith Lee MacKenzie Gersting(born August 20, 1940)[1]is an American mathematician, computer scientist, and textbook author. She is a professor emerita of computer science atIndiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis[2]and at theUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.[3]
Education and career
editGersting graduated fromStetson Universityin 1962,[4]and completed a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1969 atArizona State University.Her dissertation,Some Results on-Regressive Isols,concernedrecursive function theoryand was supervised by Matt Hassett.[5][6]
After holding a faculty position in the department of mathematical sciences at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) for ten years, and becoming a full professor there, she spent a year at theUniversity of Central Floridabefore returning to IUPUI in 1981 as professor of mathematics and acting chair of the department of computer and information science.[4]She came to the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo in 1990,[7]and chaired the computer science department there for many years. After retiring from the University of Hawaiʻi, she became a part-time faculty member at IUPUI.[3]
Books
editGersting's books include:
- Abstract Algebra: A First Look(with Joseph E. Kuczkowski, Marcel Dekker, 1977)[8]
- The Metric System(with Elaine V. Alton, Cummings, 1977)[9]
- Yes–No; Stop–Go: Some Patterns in Mathematical Logic(with Joseph E. Kuczkowski and Don Madden, Crowell, 1977)[10]
- Mathematical Structures for Computer Science(W. H. Freeman, 1982; 7th ed., 2014)[11]
- Technical Calculus with Analytic Geometry(Wadsworth, 1984; Dover, 1992)[12]
- The Computer: History, Workings, Uses & Limitations(with Michael C. Gemignani, Ardsley House, 1988)[13]
- The Programming Process with Pascal(West Publishing, 1989)
- Invitation to Computer Science(with G. Michael Schneider, West Publishing, 1995; 8th ed., Cengage, 2018)
- Visual Basic Programming: A Laboratory Approach(Computer Science Press, 1996)
With Henry M. Walker, she was co-chair and co-editor of the annual symposium on computer science education ofSIGCSEin 2002.[14]
Recognition
editThe University of Hawaii system awarded Gersting the Regents’ Excellence in Teaching Award in 2006.[7]
References
edit- ^Birth date fromLibrary of Congress catalogy entry,retrieved 2021-03-09
- ^"Judith Gersting, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Computer & Information Science",People Directory,IUPUI School of Science,retrieved2021-03-09
- ^abDr. Judith Gersting,University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Computer Science & Engineering,retrieved2021-03-09
- ^ab"Three directors named by board",Green Sheet,11(32), Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis: 1, 16 August 1981,hdl:2450/8512
- ^Judith Gerstingat theMathematics Genealogy Project
- ^King, Amy C.; McCroskey, Rosemary (1976), "Woman Ph.D.'s in mathematics in USA and Canada: 1886–1973",Philosophia Mathematica,s1-13-14 (1): 79–129,doi:10.1093/philmat/s1-13-14.1.79
- ^ab"Gersting receives UH Regents' Excellence in Teaching Award",News and Events,University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, 18 May 2006,retrieved2021-03-09
- ^Reviews ofAbstract Algebra:T. W. Hungerford,MR0441596;D. Simson,Zbl0354.00005
- ^Review ofThe Metric System:Loren C. Larson (1977),Amer. Math. Monthly,JSTOR2321279
- ^"Outstanding science trade books for children in 1977",Science and Children,15(6): 27–30, March 1978,JSTOR43161980
- ^Reviews ofMathematical Structures for Computer Science:Miklós Bóna (2012),MAA Reviews,[1];Edward Dubinsky (1984),Amer. Math. Monthly,doi:10.2307/2322156,JSTOR2322156;U.Klemm,Zbl0649.68001;E. Keith Lloyd (1988),Math. Gaz.,doi:10.2307/3618023,JSTOR3618023;Anthony Ralston (1983),American Scientist,JSTOR27852312
- ^Review ofTechnical Calculus with Analytic Geometry:Hung Dinh (1993),Amer. Math. Monthly,JSTOR2324233
- ^Review ofThe Computer:Harold Borko,ACM Computing Reviews
- ^Gersting, Judith; Walker, Henry M.; Grissom, Scott (2002),SIGCSE '02: Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education,Association for Computing Machinery,doi:10.1145/563340,ISBN978-1-58113-473-5