{"id":6476,"date":"2020-11-20T16:34:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T21:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/?p=6476"},"modified":"2020-11-20T16:34:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T21:34:42","slug":"paul-saylor-1939-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/2020\/11\/20\/paul-saylor-1939-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Saylor, 1939-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\"><!--introduction--><p>My friend Paul Saylor <a href=\"https:\/\/cs.illinois.edu\/news\/professor-emeritus-paul-saylor-dies-81\">passed away<\/a> on November 7th.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/files\/saylor.jpg\" alt=\"\"> <\/p><!--\/introduction--><h3>Contents<\/h3><div><ul><li><a href=\"#81d53bed-1b3a-4daf-a049-ef79e60f7ead\">University of Illinois<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#641cd599-8ba2-42d9-8e5a-1bbfd6778fe9\">Professorships<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#5b740c91-ad84-485d-b121-348cf0f59b5a\">Numerical relativity<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><h4>University of Illinois<a name=\"81d53bed-1b3a-4daf-a049-ef79e60f7ead\"><\/a><\/h4><p>Paul retired after 34 years as a professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He was 81 years old. He was born in May 1939, just three months before me.<\/p><p>My friend <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/cleve\/2020\/02\/28\/gene-golubs-22nd-birthday\/\">Gene Golub<\/a> was an alumnus of the University of Illinois and a longtime friend of Paul and his wife Cynthia.  Gene endowed a professorship at his alma mater, the <a href=\"https:\/\/cs.illinois.edu\/about\/awards\/faculty-awards\/chairs-and-professorships\/paul-and-cynthia-saylor-professorship\">Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professorship<\/a>.<\/p><h4>Professorships<a name=\"641cd599-8ba2-42d9-8e5a-1bbfd6778fe9\"><\/a><\/h4><p>Another friend, Bill Gropp, was the first recipient of the Saylor professorship at Illinois. Bill was in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1145\/3386331\">1979 numerical analysis class<\/a> at Stanford where I introduced \"Classic\" MATLAB to grad students in engineering and ultimately to Jack Little. After Stanford, Bill was on the faculty at Yale for several years and was involved in YSMP, the Yale Sparse Matrix Package, many years before we had sparse matrices in MATLAB. Then he went to Argonne National Laboratory and, among other things, to the development of MPI, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcs.anl.gov\/research\/projects\/mpi\/\">Message Passing Interface<\/a>, which today dominates the world of distributed memory supercomputers.  Now he has another <a href=\"https:\/\/wgropp.cs.illinois.edu\/\">endowed professorship<\/a> at Illinois and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.computer.org\/press-room\/2020-news\/gropp-voted-ieee-computer-society-2021-president-elect\">President-elect<\/a> of the IEEE Computer Society.<\/p><h4>Numerical relativity<a name=\"5b740c91-ad84-485d-b121-348cf0f59b5a\"><\/a><\/h4><p>Kip Thorne is the only one of my friends who has won a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/physics\/2017\/thorne\/facts\/\">Nobel Prize<\/a>.  In 2017, he was cited for \"for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.\" Numerical solution, on supercomputers, of the Einstein field equations of general relativity played a central role in the LIGO detection. 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