Vita for  Carter  Bays      email:  bays@sc.edu
                                        
    PHONE:    h - 800-332-2297         WEB SITE:  www.cbays.com
 
    EDUCATION                       
 
B.S.  Math,  Purdue University.
M.S.  Computer Science,  University of  Oklahoma. 
PhD.  Computer Science,  University of  Oklahoma.
 
 
    ACADEMIC  POSITIONS at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
    DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING 
 
6/02 - pres. Distinguished Professor Emeritus
5/93 - 6/02  Professor
5/81 - 5/93  Associate Professor
9/75 - 5/81  Assistant Professor
 
    TEACHING QUALIFICATIONS
 
I have taught a large number of courses, including Operating Systems,
Programming Language Features, Data Structures, Analysis of  Algorithms, 
Computer Graphics, and a variety of programming languages and other courses.
 
 
    CURRENT  INTERESTS
 
1) Algorithm Development 
2) Web Site Usability and Usability in General (Occasional Consultant)
3) Cellular Automata  (Invited Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of 
   Cellular Automata, 2005 - present)
 
 
    MOST CURRENT WORK
 
1) Invited to write two articles for "The Encyclopedia
   of Complex Systems (Springer-Verlag, 2009)
 
2) Invited to write the introductory chapter (and one other)
   for a book about John Conway's "Game of Life" (title of 
   book unknown at this time), editor Andrew Adamatzky, to be
   published by Springer-Verlag,  2010. 
 
 
  SOME IMPORTANT EARLIER RESULTS
 
 
"Improving a Poor Random Number Generator".
 
This nifty algorithm, which is executed in O(1)
(no more than 10 assembler language instructions), is the standard method 
employed when the need for a series of random numbers is required, yet 
nothing is known about the type or source of the underlying random number 
generator, RNG (See "Bays-Durham").  Current needs however typically require 
that we know something about our source of random numbers.  Probably the 
best and simplest RNG now in use is Marsaglia's 32 bit "multiply with carry", 
using a table size of 256.  This RNG is said to have a period of about 2^8222.  
 
 
"A Comparison of Next-fit, First-fit, and Best-fit."
 
This short note settled the question of which memory
allocation among the three was the best.
 
 
"Candidates for the Game of Life in Three Dimensions."
 
This discovery, the three dimensional version of John Conway's famous 
two dimensional cellular automaton, received much attention (hundreds of 
letters) after an article regarding this research appeared in 
Scientific American  (Feb. 1987).
 
 
 
    REFEREED ARTICLES          <a href="http://www.cse.sc.edu/~bays/citat.html"> text citations</a>
    <br>    Carter Bays "The Discovery of  Glider Guns in a Game of Life for the 
    Triangular Tessellation."  Journal of Cellular Automata 2,4 (2007), 
    pages 345-350 
 
    Carter Bays, "A Note about the Discovery of Many New Rules for the 
    Game of Three Dimensional Life." Complex Systems 16 (2006), 
    pages 381-386.
 
    Carter Bays, "A Note on the Game of Life in Hexagonal and Pentagonal 
    Tessellations.", Complex Systems 15 (2005), pages 245 - 252.
 
    Carter Bays and Hudson, Richard H., "Zeroes of Dirichlet $L$-functions and 
    Irregularities in the distribution of primes." Mathematics of  Computation,
    June 2000.
 
    Carter Bays and R. H. Hudson, "A new bound for the Smallest x 
    with pi(x) < li(x),"   Mathematics of Computation,  June 2000.
 
    Carter Bays, "Cellular Automata in the Triangular Tessellation."
    Complex Systems 8 1994, pages 127-150.
   
    Carter Bays, "Further Notes on the Game of Three Dimensional Life."
    Complex Systems 8 1994, pages 67-73.
 
    Carter Bays, "A New Candidate Rule for the Game of Three-Dimensional Life."
    Complex Systems 6 1992, pages 433-441.
 
    Carter Bays and W.E. Sharp, "A Review of Portable Random Number Generators."
    Computer & Geosciences 1992, Vol. 18, No. 1. pages 79-87.
 
    Carter Bays and W.E. Sharp, "Improved Random Numbers for Your Personal 
    Computer or Workstation." GEOBYTE April 1992, page 25-32.
 
    Carter Bays and W. E. Sharp, "Generating Random Numbers in the Field."
    Mathematical Geology, 1991, Vol. 23, No. 4. Pages 541-547.
 
    Carter Bays and Margaret Anne Pierce, "Applications of the Collision Test to 
    Produce Results consistent with the Spectral Test," Simulation 57:5, 1991, 
    pages 335-343.
 
    Carter Bays, "A New Game of Three-Dimensional Life." Complex Systems 5 1991, 
    pp 15-18.
 
    Carter Bays, "Improving A Poor Random Number Generator: a Comparison Between
    Two Shuffling  Methods." Journal of Statistical Computation and  Simulation
    Vol. 36, No. 1, (1990) Pages 57-59.
 
    Carter Bays,"Classification of Semitotalistic Cellular Automata in 
    Three Dimensions." Complex Systems 2   1988, pages 235-254.
 
    Carter Bays,"A Note on the Discovery of a New Game of 
    Three-dimensional Life."  Complex Systems 2  1988,   pages   255-258.
 
    Carter Bays, "The Discovery of a New Glider for the Game of 
    Three-dimensional Life." Complex Systems 4 1988,   pages 599-602.
 
    Carter Bays, "Candidates for the Game of Life in Three Dimensions."
    Complex Systems 1 1987, pages 373-400.
 
    Carter Bays, "Patterns for Simple Cellular Automata in a Universe of
    Dense Packed Spheres."  Complex Systems 1 1987,   pages 853-875
 
    Carter Bays, "Computer-Aided Advisement Language at the University 
    of South Carolina."  College and University   Fall, 1984, Pages 32-37.
 
    Carter Bays and R. H. Hudson, "Cyclic Behavior of Primes the 
    Arithmetic Progressions Modulo 11." Journal fur die Reine und Angewandte 
    Mathematik, 1983. Pages 215-220.
 
    Carter Bays and Richard H. Hudson, "Numerical and Graphical Description 
    of All of Axis Crossing Regions for the Moduli 4 and 8 Which Occur 
    Before 10^13,"  International  Journal of Math & Math Sci.  1979, Vol. 2,
    pages 111-119.
 
    Carter Bays and Richard Hudson, "The Appearance of Tens of Billion of 
    Integers with pi(4,3) < pi(4,1) in the vicinity of  10^12"
    Journal fur die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik   1978,  Pages 234-237.
 
    Carter Bays and Richard H. Hudson, "Details of the First Region of Integers 
    With pi(3,2) < pi(3,1)."   Mathematics of Computation    April 1978, 
     Vol. 32, No. 142, pages 571-576.
 
    Carter Bays and Richard H. Hudson, "On the Fluctuations of Littlewood for 
    Primes of the Form pi(4,3,1) "   Math. of Computation   January 1978, 
    Vol. 32, No. 141, pages 281-286.
    
    Carter Bays, "A Comparison of Next-fit, First-fit, and Best-fit."
    Communications of the ACM  March 1977, Vol. 20, No. 3. Pages 191-192.
 
    Carter Bays and Richard H. Hudson, "The Segmented Sieve of Eratosthenes 
    and Primes in Arithmetic Progressions to 10^13"   BIT    17, 1977, 121-127.
 
    Carter Bays and Richard H. Hudson, "The Mean Behavior of Primes in Arithmetic
    Progressions." Journal fur die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik," 1977. 
    Pages 80-99.
 
    Carter Bays, S.D. Durham, "Improving a Poor Random Number Generator." ACM 
    Transactions on  Mathematical Software  March 1976, Vol. 2, No. 1, Pages 
    59-64. 
    (* Note: the technique described in this paper is now a standard method for 
    generating random numbers - Google: Bays Durham Shuffle, or Bays Shuffle.)
 
    Carter Bays, "An Animation Description Language." Computer Jour. Mar. 1976. 
    Pages 1-8.
 
    Carter Bays, "A Non-recursive Technique for Recreating a Digraph from its 
    K-formula Representation."  The Computer Journal, June 1975, Vol. 19, 
    No. 4. Pages 326-328.
 
    Carter Bays, "Some Techniques for Structuring Chained Hash Tables."
    The Computer Journal, April 1973, Vol. 16, No. 2. Pages 126-131.
 
    Carter Bays,  " The Reallocation of Hash-Coded Tables."
    Communications of the ACM, January 1973, Vol. 16, No. 1. Pages 11-14.
 
    Carter Bays, "A Note on When To Chain Overflow Items Within a 
    Direct-Access Table." Communications of the ACM, January 1973, 
    Vol. 16, No. 1. Page 47.