Richard Fateman should not be confused with Richard Bateman (disambiguation).
| Richard J Fateman | |
| Birth Date: | 4 November 1946 |
| Education: | B.S. (1966), Union College Ph.D. (1971), Harvard University |
| Known For: | Macsyma, Franz Lisp |
| Employer: | University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation: | Computer scientist |
| Spouse: | Martha Fateman |
| Nationality: | American |
| Callsign: | KJ6BIH |
Richard J Fateman (born November 4, 1946)[1] is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.
He received a BS in Physics and Mathematics from Union College in June, 1966, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in June, 1971. He was a major contributor to the Macsyma computer algebra system at MIT and later to the Franz Lisp system. His current interests include scientific programming environments; computer algebra systems; distributed computing; analysis of algorithms; programming and measurement of large systems; design and implementation of programming languages; and optical character recognition. In 1999, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Richard Fateman is the father of musician Johanna Fateman.