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John H. Halton is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received a B.A. and an M.A. in Mathematics and Physics from Cambridge University in 1953 and 1957, respectively, and the D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1960. He has since held positions in both industry and academia. He was a physicist at the English Electric Company from 1954 to 1956, and a senior research officer at Oxford University's Clarendon Laboratory from 1960 to 1962. He joined the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1962 as a visiting assistant professor. From 1964 to 1966 he was a mathematician at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In 1966 he joined the Computer Science Department at the University of Wisconsin at Madison as an associate professor, and attained the rank of professor in 1969. From 1983 to 1984, Dr. Halton was a principal engineer in the Advanced Technology Department at Harris Corp., in Melbourne, Fla. He joined UNC-Chapel Hill as professor of computer science in 1984.

Dr. Halton has worked as a consultant for both industry and government agencies, including the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories. His principal area of research encompasses all theoretical aspects of the Monte Carlo method. Of his 116 publications, about half are on Monte Carlo computation, including quasi-random numbers. The remainder are in various aspects of combinatorial and probabilistic algorithms, including a fast probabilistic algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem, numerical analysis, graph theory, statistical tests, large scale scientific computation, and the theory of lubrication.