David William Matula (born 1937) ^[1] is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his research on graph theory, graph algorithms, computer arithmetic, and algorithm engineering. He is a professor emeritus at Southern Methodist University, where he formerly held the Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering. ^[2]

Matula was an undergraduate at Washington University in St. Louis, ^[2] graduating in 1959. ^[3] He completed his Ph.D. in 1966 at the University of California, Berkeley, with the dissertation Games of Sequence Prediction supervised by David Blackwell. ^[4]

After completing his Ph.D., he returned to Washington University in St. Louis as a faculty member. He joined the Southern Methodist University faculty in 1974 as chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, ^[2] was named to the Cruse C. and Marjorie F. Calahan Centennial Chair in Engineering in 2016, ^[3] and retired in 2018. ^[2]

Matula is the coauthor, with Peter Kornerup, of the book Finite Precision Number Systems and Arithmetic (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications 133, Cambridge University Press, 2010). ^[5]

• Home page