- Jon Sorenson
Jonathan "Jon" Sorenson (b.
1964 ,Valparaiso, Indiana ) is an Americanacademic and educator, the chair of the computer science department and interim chair of the mathematics department atButler University .Biography
Sorenson was born in Indiana, the son of two faculty members at
Valparaiso University . His mother, Norma Acker, was a biology lecturer, and his father, John Sorenson, was a mathematics professor. Sorenson was the oldest of three children, and attendedValparaiso High School , graduating in1982 . He then attendedValparaiso University , studying mathematics and computer science, with a minor in physics, and receiving a Bachelor's in1986 . He attended graduate school at theUniversity of Wisconsin at Madison , receiving a Masters degree in computer science in1987 , a Masters in mathematics in1989 , and a Ph.D in theoretical computer science in1991 .He began teaching at
Butler University in August1991 , was promoted to tenured professor in 2004, [cite web|url=http://www.dawgnetnews.com/archive/040301/2197.html|date=March 6, 2004|accessdate=2007-11-03|publisher=Dawgnetnews.com|title=Butler promotes ten professors to tenured status|author=Maggie Loiselle] and was appointed chair of the computer science department in2005 . In 2007, he was co-leader on a project to obtain asupercomputer for the school, entitled "Big Dawg." [cite web|url=http://www.supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=14523|title=Butler University donations to help buy supercomputer|date=October 8, 2007|accessdate=2007-11-03|publisher=supercomputingonline.com]Writing
As of 2006, Sorenson has written over three dozen papers. His most well-known one is "Two Fast GCD Algorithms", 1994, which was used as a reference in
Donald Knuth 's book, "The Art of Computer Programming", Volume 2, and many of his other papers have appeared in theANTS conference proceedings.Notes
References
* [http://euclid.butler.edu/~sorenson Sorenson's bio page at Butler University]
*cite journal|url=http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=180658.180665|title=Two fast GCD Algorithms|author=Jon Sorenson|date=January 1994|journal=Journal of Algorithms|volume=16|issue=1|pages=110–144|issn=0196-6774|doi=10.1006/jagm.1994.1006
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