1. Jeffrey Outlaw Shallit was born on October 17,1957 and is an American computer scientist and mathematician.
11 Facts About Jeffrey Shallit
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Jeffrey Shallit is an active number theorist and a noted critic of intelligent design.
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Jeffrey Shallit is married to Anna Lubiw, a computer scientist.
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Jeffrey Shallit's father was journalist Joseph Shallit, the son of Jewish immigrants from Vitebsk, Russia.
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Jeffrey Shallit's mother was Louise Lee Outlaw Shallit, a writer.
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Jeffrey Shallit has one brother, Jonathan Shallit, a music professor.
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Since 1996, Shallit has held the position of Vice-President of Electronic Frontier Canada.
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Jeffrey Shallit has been a critic of the work of William Dembski promoting intelligent design.
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Jeffrey Shallit has coauthored a paper with Wesley Elsberry demonstrating problems with Dembski's mathematical work, and would have appeared as a witness opposing Dembski in the Kitzmiller v Dover trial had Dembski not dropped out.
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Jeffrey Shallit has been recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery as a Distinguished Scientist.
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Jeffrey Shallit's publications include the books Algorithmic Number Theory, a noted text on algorithms, Automatic Sequences: Theory, Applications, Generalizations, and A Second Course in Formal Languages and Automata Theory.