Chris Wallace (computer scientist)

Christopher " Chris " Wallace Stewart (* October 26, 1933; † 7 August 2004) was an Australian computer scientist and physicist.

Life

Wallace in 1959 received his doctorate at the University of Sydney. In 1968 he received an appointment at the Monash University to found the Department of Information Science ( later renamed in Computer Science ). He retired in 1996.

Wallace was a member of the Australian Computing Society and the Association for Computing Machinery. From the latter he received the status of Fellow in 1995.

Wallace was married to Judy Ogilvie, operator of SILLIAC, the first Australian supercomputer.

Scientific Work

Chris Wallace developed on the first computer Sydney a program for analyzing cosmic radiation.

His scientific work includes contributions to multiplication ( Wallace tree multiplier ) and random number generation with computers and the minimum message length principle, a formulation of Occam's razor.

Publications (selection)

• CS Wallace, Statistical and Inductive Inference by Minimum Message Length, Springer (Series: Information Science and Statistics ), 2005, ISBN 0-387-23795- X ( posthumous)