John Pasta

Name: John R. Pasta

Born: 1918 in New York City, USA

Death: 1984 (Age: 66)

Computer-related contributions

• American computer scientist, mathematician and computational physicist.
• Known for co-originating the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam experiment at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• Helped construct the MANIAC I (an early computer that specialized in calculations around weapons design).
• Former head of the department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Significant publications

• The Role of the University in the Computer Age (1969).

Honors and awards

• Awarded the Bronze Star and the Belgian Fourragere.