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Bill Press (also indexed on the web as William Press and
William H. Press) is the Leslie Surginer
Professor in Computer Science
and in Integrative
Biology at the University of Texas
at Austin. His affiliations at UT include memberships in the
Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology (ICMB) and in the Oden Institute for
Computational Engineering and Sciences (ODEN). Press is also a Senior
Fellow (emeritus) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in the Statistical Sciences group
(CCS-6). His research is on
computational biology, genomics, and computational
statistical methods. Prior to June, 2004, he served for five years as
LANL's Deputy Laboratory Director for Science and Technology. Before
that, he was for twenty years Professor of Astronomy and Physics at
Harvard University, and a member of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics. Press was a member of President Obama's Council of Advisors
on Science and Technology from 2009 to 2017 and was reappointed to this
White House council by President Biden in 2021. (PCAST).
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Bill's present and previous work touches several different communities:
You might know him
as a computational biologist
and computer scientist,
or earlier as a theoretical
astrophysicist, or else you might know him as the co-author and
(in his off hours) co-maintainer of the Numerical Recipes series of books on
scientific computer programming. (He is further involved in
other professional activities.)
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No relation to a different Bill Press whom you might see
as a political commentator on cable television.
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