Peter Calingaert

Professor Emeritus

Contact Information

My e-mail address is pc AT cs.unc.edu
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Education

B.A. 1952, Swarthmore College, physics
1953, Université de Nancy, France (Fulbright Student Grant)
A.M. 1954, Harvard, applied mathematics (computer science)
Ph.D. 1955, Harvard, applied mathematics (computer science)

Professional Biography

Interests

Community service, Meadows of Chapel Hill Homeowners Association
- Board of Directors member 2011-2014, 2022-
- Treasurer 2012-2014, Secretary 2022-
Culture: e.g. classical music concerts, fine arts museums, and theater
Foreign travel, including having led the following international Sierra Club outings
- western Turkey in October 2004, May 2006, and April 2010
- Costa Rica in July 2005
- southern Perú in May/June 2006, April/May 2007, and April 2008
- northern India in November 2009
Outdoors
- conservation, including Eno River Association and Sierra Club
- hiking, including having led Sierra Club Orange-Chatham Group day hikes
Piano (playing classical music)
Public service, Town of Chapel Hill NC
- Technology Committee (member 1998-2000)
- Greenways Commission (member 2001-2006, chair 2003-2005)
Studying foreign languages
Teaching English to speakers of other languages

Selected Publications

Calingaert, P. "Aiken as a Teacher", I. Bernard Cohen and Gregory W. Welch (eds.), Makin' Numbers: Howard Aiken and the Computer, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999, 143-161.

Calingaert, P. Growth of a Department: A Personal History of Computer Science at UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1994, 32 pp.

Calingaert, P. Program Translation Fundamentals: Methods and Issues, Rockville, MD.: Computer Science Press, 1988, 366 pp. Italian translation, Milano: Franco Angeli, 1990.

Calingaert, P. PC-DOS Fundamentals for Diskette-Based Operation, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1986, 254 pp.

Calingaert, P. Operating System Elements: A User Perspective, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982, 240 pp. German translation, Munich: Oldenbourg, 1983; Russian translation, Moscow: Mir, 1985.

Calingaert, P. Assemblers, Compilers, and Program Translation, Potomac, MD: Computer Science Press, 1979, 270 pp.

Calingaert, P. "System Performance Evaluation: Survey and Appraisal", Communications of the ACM, 10(1), Jan. 1967, 12-18.

Calingaert, P. Principles of Computation, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1965, 200 pp. Portuguese translation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Ao Livro Tecnico, 1969.

Text last modified 2024-03-01; Photo taken 2023-12-02

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