John Reid

John Reid is an Honorary Scientist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Convener of the ISO Fortran Working Group, and a Visiting Professor at Cranfield University. He was formerly a Reader at the University of Sussex, and a Senior Research Scientist at Harwell and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

John has been a member of NAG since the very early days.

He has written many of the Fortran packages in the HSL collection (formerly known as the Harwell Subroutine Library). He was a member of the IFIP Working Group on mathematical software for over 20 years and its chairman for 4 years. John's research has mainly concerned numerical methods for sparse matrices, but he has also worked in many other areas.

John played a leading role in the design of Fortran 90, 95, 2003, and 2008. With Mike Metcalf and recently Malcolm Cohen, he has co-authored a sequence of OUP books that have summarized and explained each of these standards.

As a Board member, he hopes to be able to promote a continuing emphasis on high quality numerical software (and services based on that software) and active collaboration with others in the technical computing community.