Judith Gersting
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use list-defined references Judith Lee MacKenzie Gersting (born August 20, 1940)Template:R is an American mathematician, computer scientist, and textbook author. She is a professor emerita of computer science at Indiana University–Purdue University IndianapolisTemplate:R and at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.Template:R
Education and career
Gersting graduated from Stetson University in 1962,Template:R and completed a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1969 at Arizona State University. Her dissertation, Some Results on -Regressive Isols, concerned recursive function theory and was supervised by Matt Hassett.Template:R
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 the University of Central Florida before returning to IUPUI in 1981 as professor of mathematics and acting chair of the department of computer and information science.Template:R She came to the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo in 1990,Template:R 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.Template:R
Books
Gersting's books include:
- Abstract Algebra: A First Look (with Joseph E. Kuczkowski, Marcel Dekker, 1977)Template:R
- The Metric System (with Elaine V. Alton, Cummings, 1977)Template:R
- Yes–No; Stop–Go: Some Patterns in Mathematical Logic (with Joseph E. Kuczkowski and Don Madden, Crowell, 1977)Template:R
- Mathematical Structures for Computer Science (W. H. Freeman, 1982; 7th ed., 2014)Template:R
- Technical Calculus with Analytic Geometry (Wadsworth, 1984; Dover, 1992)Template:R
- The Computer: History, Workings, Uses & Limitations (with Michael C. Gemignani, Ardsley House, 1988)Template:R
- 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 of SIGCSE in 2002.Template:R
Recognition
The University of Hawaii system awarded Gersting the Regents’ Excellence in Teaching Award in 2006.Template:R
References
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