DeMaine, Paul

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DeMaine, Paul Alexander Desmond Born October 11, 1924, Republic of South Africa, died May 13, 1999. B.Sc (1948) chemistry and mathematics, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Ph.D. (1955) physical chemistry, University of British Columbia. Post-doctoral studies with R.S. Mulliken, University of Chicago; P.A.M. Dirac, Cambridge University; B. Conway, Ottawa University; F.T. Wall, University of Illinois; and I.K. Ugi, Institut fuer Organische Chemie und Biochemie, TU Muenchen. Senior Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Association of America; senior member, IEEE, ACS and ACM. Career included National Bureau of Standards, Ballistic Missile Defense Advanced Technology Center, SUNY Albany, University of Mississippi, University of Illinois, UC Santa Barbara, The Pennsylvania State University and Auburn University. Authored 1 patent, two books, and more than 200 published scientific research articles and reports in chemistry, computational chemistry and computer science. Directed seventeen Ph.D. students and forty M.S. students. Research included spectroscopy, charge transfer complexes, solution theory, data compression, information retrieval, human-machine interfaces, expert systems and systems for detecting and correcting computational errors. Leading figure in the early development of computer based automatic indexing and retrieval and one of the founders of academic computer science in the 1960's.

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