Daniel R. Grayson

Daniel Grayson received his PhD in Mathematics from MIT in 1976, taught at Columbia from 1976 to 1981, and came to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981, where he is a Professor. His mathematical research concerns algebraic K-theory, but he has always been intrigued by computers. In 1986 he joined with Stephen Wolfram and six other co-authors to write Mathematica which in the years since its introduction in 1988 has become the pre-eminent system for mathematics on the computer.