Elizabeth Redding Jessup is an American computer scientist specializing in

numerical linear algebra Numerical linear algebra, sometimes called applied linear algebra, is the study of how matrix operations can be used to create computer algorithms which efficiently and accurately provide approximate answers to questions in continuous mathematics. ...

and the generalized minimal residual method. She is a professor emerita of computer science at the

University of Colorado Boulder The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1876, five months before Colorado became a state, it is the flagship university of the University of Colorado syst ...

Education and career

Jessup is one of three children of an

Indianapolis Indianapolis (), colloquially known as Indy, is the state capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the seat of Marion County. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the consolidated population of Indianapolis and Marion ...

tax attorney. She majored in mathematics at

Williams College Williams College is a Private college, private liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a col ...

, and went to

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

for graduate study, earning a master's degree in applied physics and a Ph.D. in computer science there. Her 1989 dissertation, ''Parallel Solution of the Symmetric Tridiagonal Eigenproblem'', was supervised by

Ilse Ipsen Ilse Clara Franziska Ipsen is a German-American mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at North Carolina State University. She was formerly associate director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, a joint ...

; she was Ipsen's first student. She joined the University of Colorado Boulder faculty in 1989, as the only woman on the computer science faculty. She became chair of the computer science department there twice, taking advantage of the position to focus on improving both faculty diversity and job satisfaction, before retiring in 2019.

Contributions

Jessup is a coauthor of the book ''An Introduction to High-Performance Scientific Computing'' (with Lloyd D. Fosdick, Carolyn J. C. Schauble, and , MIT Press, 1996). In 2008, she founded a biennial conference, the Rocky Mountain Celebration of Women in Computing.

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