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Invited Speaker Stan Devitt Manager, Electronic Publishing Projects Waterloo Maple Inc. Waterloo, Canada |
Email: |
jsdevitt@maplesoft.com |
Homepage: |
http://www.maplesoft.com |
Paper: |
Interactive Computational Support for Sequences and Regular Expressions |
Talk: |
Mathematical Documents -- Live
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Abstract: |
Interactive computational systems such as Maple can be used in many
ways to bring mathematical documents to life. This presentation
explores the use of this technology to enhance the access,
customization and utilization of general mathematical information.
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Born: |
Born and raised in Alberta |
Education: |
Honours undergraduate degree in Pure Mathematics and Master's degree in Combinatorial
Number Theory under the supervision of Richard Guy at the University of Calgary.
Ph.D at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of David Jackson in Algebraic Enumeration with minors in the design and analysis of algorithms and in computational complexity. |
Family: |
Family includes a wife,
Diane, and two teenagers, Deanna and Craig, and family activities
include the operation of a family puppet theatre centred around
characters and scripts developed by Diane.
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Interests: |
Hobbies include sailing and scuba diving.
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Comments: |
Interactive computation through symbolic algebra
has an important role to play in "controlling" the level of abstraction.
Through effective use of systems such as Maple we can teach top down
problem solving for mathematics. For research, the use of such tools
to build a problem exploring environment is an important part of
exploring new subject areas. |