| Dr. Keith
Devlin is Executive Director of Stanford University's Center for the
Study of Language and Information and a Consulting Professor of
Mathematics at Stanford. He is a co-founder of Stanford's Media X
network—a campus-wide
research network focused on the design and use of interactive
technologies—and its Executive Director.
He is the author
of twenty-four books, one interactive book on CD-ROM and over seventy
published research articles. He is a Fellow of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, and a World Economic Forum Fellow. He
has received numerous awards. (continues)
Devlin has a
B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from King's College London (1968) and a
Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Bristol (1971).
His current
research work is centered around the task of applying mathematical
techniques to issues of language and information and the design of
information systems.
He is a regular
contributor to NPR's popular magazine program Weekend Edition
(where he is known as "the Math Guy") and a frequent
contributor to various other local and national radio programs,
both in the USA and Britain, commenting on advances in mathematics
and computing. He writes a monthly column, "Devlin's Angle," on
the web journal MAA Online.
Most recent trade books:
* The Millennium Problems: The Seven
Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time, published by Basic
Books in 2002
* The Math Gene: How Mathematical
Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip, published by Basic
Books in 2000
* InfoSense: Turning Information Into
Knowledge, published by W. H. Freeman in 1999
* Mathematics: The New Golden Age
(Second Edition), published by Columbia University Press in 1999
Book awards
* Life by the Numbers, the companion to
the six-part PBS television series of the same name, for which he was an
advisor, published by John Wiley in 1998, was nominated for the BABRA
Award.
* Logic and Information, published by
Cambridge University Press in 1991, won the American Association of
Publishers award as "Most Outstanding Book in Computer Science and Data
Processing of 1991".
* The Math Gene and The Language of
Mathematics won the Italian Peano Prize for 2003.
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