Keith Geddes

Keith Oliver Geddes (born 1947) is a professor emeritus in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science within the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. He is a former director of the [http://www.scg.uwaterloo.ca Symbolic Computation Group] in the School of Computer Science. He received a BA in Mathematics at the University of Saskatchewan in 1968; he completed both his MSc and PhD in Computer Science at the University of Toronto.

Geddes is probably best known for co-founding the Maple computer algebra system, now in widespread academic use around the world. He is also the Scientific Director at the [http://www.orcca.on.ca/ Ontario Research Centre for Computer Algebra], and is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, as well as the American and Canadian Mathematical Societies. Provided by Wikipedia