Howard L. Resnikoff
Howard Leonard Resnikoff (May 13, 1937 – March 5, 2018) was an American mathematician and business executive.
Resnikoff was born in New York City on May 13, 1937. He obtained a bachelor's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and earned a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley under the supervision of Ádám Korányi.[1][2] [3] Resnikoff began teaching at Rice University in 1967. He joined the University of California at Irvine faculty in 1975.[1] Between 1979 and 1981, Resnikoff was director of the Division of Information Science and Technology at the National Science Foundation.[4] He became an associate vice president at Harvard University in 1981, serving until 1983. Resnikoff worked for Thinking Machines Corporation and Aware, Inc. after leaving Harvard, as well as FutureWave, Inc.[1] He received thirteen patents for a variety of inventions,[1][5] and in later life served on the board of governors of the Jacobs University Bremen and was president and chairman of the institution's Foundation of America.[6][1] Resnikoff's wife Joan was a painter.[7] He died on March 5, 2018.[1]
References
- "Howard L. Resnikoff". Boston Globe. May 13, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
- "Howard L. Resnikoff". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
- Howard L. Resnikoff at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Resnikoff, Howard L. (1989). The Illusion of Reality. Springer. ISBN 9781461281153.
- "Patents by Inventor Howard L. Resnikoff". Justia.com. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
- "Howard L. Resnikoff". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
- Harris, Patricia; Lyon, David (June 15, 2006). "A Lofty Marriage". Boston Magazine. Retrieved May 19, 2018.