Joseph F. Traub

Activities and Affiliations

• Traub's web page through Columbia University which links to his bibliography, publications and his various professional activities.
  

• The Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) works to provide independent advice to the federal government regarding technical and policy issues which relate to computer science. Traub was the founding chair in 1986 and currently chairs this Board.
  

• Traub was elected a fellow in the National Academy of Engineers in 1985.
  

• International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) – Technical Committee 1 (TC 1)
  

• Santa Fe Institute

• Traub presented the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Distinguished Lecture on September 19, 2002.
  

• Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings – Algorithms and Complexity for Continuous Problems Workshop
  

• Traub presented at the March 6, 2006, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Computer Science colloquia.
  

• Traub presented a talk – Algorithms and Complexity for Continuous Problems on Quantum Computers – at the University of Chicago's Department of Computer Science on May 5, 2004.
  

• In 1993, Traub presented a series of six lectures at the Academia Nazionale dei Lincei of Rome which were compiled into the book Complexity and Information.

• Traub is currently an Associate Editor at Complexity.
  
  
• Traub founded The Journal of Complexity in 1985, and is currently the Editor-in-Chief.
  
  
• Information-Based Complexity (Wikipedia)
  
  
• The work on the Traub-Jenkins Algorithm was originally done in the late 1960s. Subsequently, many others produced articles regarding this algorithm.
  
  
  • Quasi-Monte Carlo Method (Wikipedia)
  • Continuous Quantum Computation (Wikipedia)
    
    
• Defining a Decade: Envisioning CSTB's Second 10 Years – Proceedings of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board’s 10th Anniversary Symposium May 16, 1996, Washington D.C. This site includes the complete contents of the proceedings, which also include a chapter written by Traub.
  

• Traub’s working papers through the Santa Fe Institute.
  

• Carnegie Mellon University – Computer Science Research Reviews 1966-1990: Tables of Contents.

• The Unknown and the Unknowable: A Talk with Joseph Traub (Edge magazine)
  

• Charles Babbage Institute Center for the History of Information Technology
  
  
  • Complete listing of collected interviews
  • Traub’s page (view abstracts and see transcripts)

• Traub was elected a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1999.
  
  
• Traub was awarded a New York Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology in 1999.
  
  
  • Columbia University published an article in their March 8, 2000, edition of Columbia University News.

• Traub was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1994. This was the inaugural year of the ACM Fellows.
  
  
• 1992 CRA Distinguished Service Award (Computing Research Association)
  

• 1991 IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award
  
  
• Traub was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1971.

• The Mathematics Genealogy Project (North Dakota State University)
  

Jennie Benford, University/Heinz Archivist, Carnegie Mellon University
Updated May 14, 2008 -- http://diva.library.cmu.edu/Traub/linksresourc.htm

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