William H. Press

William H. Press is a professor in computer science and integrative biology at the University of Texas at Austin. Before moving to Texas, he was for five years deputy director of Los Alamos National Laboratory; and before that, for twenty years, professor of astronomy and physics at Harvard University. Press is co-author of the Numerical Recipes books on scientific computing, with more than half a million copies in print. He has been a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in two White House administrations and is a past president of the American Association for Advancement of Science. He currently serves on the council of the National Academy of Sciences.