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David Gries (born 26 April 1939 in Flushing, Queens, New York) is an American computer scientist at Cornell University, United States mainly known for his books The Science of Programming (1981) and A Logical Approach to Discrete Math (1993, with Fred B. Schneider).

He was Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the Cornell University College of Engineering from 2003–2011. His research interests include programming methodology and related areas such as programming languages, related semantics, and logic. His son, Paul Gries, has been a co-author of an introductory textbook to computer programming using the language Python and is a professor teaching Stream in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.

Life

Gries earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from Queens College in 1960. He spent the next two years working as a programmer-mathematician for the U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory, where he met his wife, Elaine.

He earned a Master of Science (M.S.) in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1963. While at Illinois, Gries worked with "Manfred Paul". and Ruediger Wiehle to write a full compiler for the language ALGOL 60 for the IBM 7090 mainframe computer. He earned his Dr. rer. nat. in 1966 from the TH München, studying under Friedrich L. Bauer and Josef Stoer.

Gries is member emeritus of "IFIP Working Group 2.3 on Programming Methodology"., whose aim is to increase programmers' ability to compose programs, and he edited Programming Methodology: a Collection of Articles by Members of IFIP WG2.3, which highlights the work of this group in its first ten years.

Gries was an assistant professor at Stanford University from 1966–1969 and then became an associate professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He spent the next 30 years there, including time as chair of the computer science department from 1982–1987. He had a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984–1985. He spent 1999–2002 at the University of Georgia in Athens and returned to Cornell in January 2003.

He is author, co-author, or editor of seven textbooks and 75 research papers. As of 2021, he lives in Ithaca, New York.

Selected works

• Gries, D. (1971). Compiler Construction for Digital Computers (in English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, and Russian). New York: John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 0-471-32776-X. The first text on compiler writing.

• Gries, D.; Conway, R. (1973). An Introduction to Programming: a structured approach, Edition 1. Cambridge: Winthrop.

• Gries, D., ed. (1979) Programming Methodology: a Collection of Articles by Members of IFIP WG2.3

• Gries, D. (1981). The Science of Programming. Monographs in Computer Science (in English, Russian, and Japanese). New York: Springer Verlag.

• Gries, D.; Feijen, W.H.J.; van Gasteren, A.J.M.; Misra, J., eds. (1990). Beauty is our Business. Monographs in Computer Science. New York: Springer Verlag.

• Gries, D.; Schneider, F. B. (1993). A Logical Approach to Discrete Math. Monographs in Computer Science. New York: Springer Verlag.

• Gries, D.; De Roever, W. P., eds. (1998). Programming Concepts and Methods, PROCOMET '98. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. London: Springer.

• Gries, D.; Gries, P. (2004). Multimedia Introduction to Programming Using Java. New York: Springer Verlag. Came with a CD called 'Program Live' with videos.

• Gries, D. (2022). JavaHyperText and Data Structures. Ithaca, New York. Free online text with over 50 videos.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

• Gries, D.; Owicki, S. (1976) "Verifying properties of parallel programs: an axiomatic approach"

• Gries, D.; Owicki, S. (1976) "An axiomatic proof technique for parallel programs I"

Awards

• Gries is the only recipient of four major educator awards in computer science:
  • AFIPS Education Award (1986)
  • ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to CS Education (1991)
  • IEEE-CS "Taylor L. Booth Education Award". (1994)
  • "ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award". (1995)

• He holds two honorary doctorates:
  • Honorary Doctor of Laws, Daniel Webster College, Nashua, New Hampshire (1996)
  • Honorary Doctor of Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (1999)

• ACM Programming Systems and Languages Paper Award, with Susan Owicki, for the paper (1977)

• Guggenheim Fellowship (1983)

• CRA Distinguished Service Award (1991)

• Advisor of T.V. Raman, whose Ph.D. thesis won the annual "ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award". (1995)

• Amity Booker Prize, with Paul Gries (2016)

• Oldest paper in the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium Top Ten Papers of All Time (2019)

• Charter Fellow, ACM (1994)

• Fellow, AAAS (1990)

• Superior Accomplishment Award, U.S. Naval Weapons Lab, Dahlgren, Va. (1961)

• Cornell University awards
  • Computer Science Department Faculty of the Year (ACSU) (2017, 1999, 1996)
  • Clarke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, College of Arts & Sciences, Cornell (1987)
  • Class of 2019 Award, “In recognition of extraordinary achievement and service ..." (2019)
  • Weiss Presidential Fellow –among the first ten Fellows (1995)
  • Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year (2022)
  • Cornell Bowers CIS Lifetime Achievement Award for Teaching (2022)

References

1. ^ Gries, D., ed. (1979). Programming Methodology: a Collection of Articles by Members of IFIP WG2.3. Monographs in Computer Science. New York: Springer Verlag.
2. "IBM Punch cards on which the book was written are in the Stanford Museum". Retrieved 11 July 2022.
3. ^ Owicki, Susan; Gries, David (1976). "Verifying properties of parallel programs: an axiomatic approach". CACM. 19 (5): 279–285. doi:10.1145/360051.360224.
4. Owicki, Susan; Gries, David (25 June 1976). "An axiomatic proof technique for parallel programs I". Acta Informatica. 6 (4). Berlin: Springer (Germany): 319–340. doi:10.1007/BF00268134.
5. "ACM Programming Systems and Languages Paper Award". ACM. 1977. Retrieved 2022-07-07.
6. "David Gries - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". 1983. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
7. "Distinguished Service Award". CRA. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
8. "Audio System for Technical Readings" (PDF) (PhD thesis). Retrieved 2022-07-09.
9. "ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium Top Ten Papers of All Time Award". SIGCSE. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
10. Gries, David (February 1974). "What should we teach in an introductory programming course?". ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. 6 (1): 81–89. doi:10.1145/953057.810447.
11. "ACM Fellows". ACM. 1994. Retrieved 2022-07-09.
12. "David Gries: ACM Fellow". ACM. 1994. Retrieved 2022-07-09.
13. "Historic Fellows, AAAS". AAAS. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
14. "Weiss Presidential Fellow (for contributions to undergraduate education)". Cornell. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
15. "Tau Beta Pi Professor of the Year". CEAA Alumni Association, College of Engineering, Cornell. Retrieved 2022-07-10.
16. "Lifetime Achievement Award for Teaching". Cornell Bowers CIS, Cornell. Retrieved 2022-07-10.

External links

• Official website
• Cornell University Science News: Computer association names Cornell's Gries an outstanding educator
• David Gries at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Books by David Gries (listed on Amazon)

• 1939 births
• Living people
• Programming language researchers
• American computer scientists
• Technical University of Munich alumni
• Cornell University faculty
• University of Georgia faculty
• Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
• Computer science educators
• Formal methods people
• American textbook writers
• American male non-fiction writers
• Computer science writers
• 20th-century American mathematicians
• 21st-century American mathematicians