Stanford 50 Photos


Serra House Directory, Stanford, 1977-78 (John Lewis, Dianne O'Leary, John Strikwerda, and Margaret Wright graduated the previous year, Bill Gropp joined the following year).

Gene Golub and Michael Heath. Switzerland, 1996.


Michael Saunders, Jim Varah, Alan George, and Michael Heath. Stanford, January 2004.


Gene Golub, center, with some of his former students at his 60th Birthday celebration in Minneapolis, 1992. Others are, from left, Oliver Ernst, Alan George, Franklin Luk, Jim Varah, Eric Grosse, Petter Bjorstad, Margaret Wright, Gene Golub, Dan Boley, Dianne O'Leary, Steve Vavasis, Tony Chan, Bill Coughran, Michael Heath, Michael Overton, and Nick Trefethen.


Pete Stewart, Michael Heath, Alston Householder, and Bob Funderlic, April 1974.

John Dennis, Michael Heath, and Pete Stewart, Argonne National Laboratory, September 1984.


Bob Ward, Gayle Ward, Michael Heath, Alan George, Michael Saunders, Carolyn Varah, Jim Varah, and Iain Duff, Switzerland, 1996.

Michael Heath, Esmond Ng, Dan Pierce, and John Gilbert. Switzerland, 1996.


Kneeling: Nick Trefethen, Marsha Berger. Standing: Randy LeVeque, Mona Heath, Michael Heath, Ken Bube, Eric Grosse, Tony Chan. Serra House volleyball court, Stanford, 1977.

Roland Sweet (sans shirt), Randy LeVeque, and Michael Heath (biting net). Serra House volleyball court, Stanford, 1977.


Sitting: Nick Trefethen, Steve Nash, Marsha Berger, Hakan Ekblom, Petter Bjorstad, Steve Leon. Standing: Randy LeVeque, Jim Wilkinson, Ken Bube, Gene Golub, Bill Coughran, Walter Gander, Frank Luk, Eric Grosse. Serra House volleyball court, Stanford, 1977.

Mona Heath, Michael Heath, John Lewis, Michael Overton, and Fran Lewis (obscured). Serra House patio, Stanford, 1976.


John Lewis, Michael Overton, Joe Oliger, and Tony Chan. Serra House patio, Stanford, 1975.

John Dennis, Fran Lewis, Joe Oliger, John Lewis, Andrzej Proskurowski, and Michael Overton. Serra House patio, Stanford, 1975.


Bob Funderlic, Michael Heath, and Gene Golub. Cades Cove, TN, 1974.

Bert Rust, Michael Heath, and Gene Golub. Cades Cove, TN, 1974.


Michael Heath with rocket pioneer Fred Ordway, technical advisor to Stanley Kubrick for the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, April 2001.


Michael Heath, rocket scientist (photo appeared in University of Illinois Dividends of Technology brochure, 2001).


Michael Heath receiving the Apple Award for Innovation in Science from Dr. Michael Gonzalez, Director of Science and Technology in Higher Education at Apple Corp., December 2007.


Mrs. Elizabeth Copp (Mr. Copp's widow) and Michael Heath at the ceremony for his investiture as the Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science, 2003.

Mrs. Elizabeth Copp with graduate students Vanessa Lopez (left) and Hanna VanderZee (right), whose research assistantships were supported by funds from the endowment for the Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science, 2003.


Wendell and Sandra Snyder (son and daughter-in-law of Mrs. Copp), Dean David Daniel, Mrs. Elizabeth Copp (Mr. Copp's widow), and Michael and Mona Heath at the investiture ceremony for the Fulton Watson Copp Chair in Computer Science, 2003.


Professor Michael Heath presenting a plenary lecture at the SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing in San Francisco, February 2004.

Photo appeared on front page of November 26, 2004 issue of Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette with caption: University of Illinois computer science Professor Michael Heath, left, and William Dick, managing director of the Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets, explain how the new Turing cluster works at the UI's Digital Computer Lab on the Urbana campus. The supercomputing cluster is made up of 640 dual-processor Apple G5 computers. N-G photo by John Dixon, copyright 2004 The News-Gazette.


Professor Michael Heath presenting a plenary lecture at the VECPAR 04 International Conference on High Performance Computing for Computational Science, Valencia, Spain, June 2004.

Tom Dunigan and Michael Heath using the new Intel iPSC/860 hypercube parallel computer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1990.