The HistoryMakers video oral history with James Curry.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 58 min., 31 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2013.033
Subjects

Other author/creatorCurry, James H., interviewee.
Other author/creatorCrowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Other author/creatorHickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with James Curry
Portion of title James Curry
Abstract Mathematician James H. Curry was born in 1948, in Oakland, California. Curry earned his B. S. (1970), M. A. (1971) and Ph.D. (1976) degrees in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley. Curry was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. In 1981, Curry began scientific investigations with a supercomputer, the Cray High Performance Computing System. Cray obtained grants to use computers to understand weather, flame propagation and other complex systems. In 1990, Curry joined the faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder, as a professor of applied mathematics. Curry was promoted to full professor of mathematics in 1995; and, in 2008, he became the associate director of the program in applied mathematics. Curry also worked for the National Science Foundation in the division of mathematical science. Curry's research with the Cray supercomputer was published in Communications in Mathematical Physics.
CreditsVideographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performer Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Arlington, Virginia 2013 January 16.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2013.033 HistoryMakers

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