Daniel Grayson received his PhD in Mathematics from MIT in 1976, taught at Columbia from 1976 to 1981, and came to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981, where he is a Professor. His mathematical research concerns algebraic K-theory, but he has always been intrigued by computers. In 1986 he joined with Stephen Wolfram and six other co-authors to write Mathematica which in the years since its introduction in 1988 has become the pre-eminent system for mathematics on the computer.
In January, 1993, he and Michael Stillman received funding from the NSF to produce a successor to Macaulay, the computer program written by Stillman and David Bayer which supports computations in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. The result is the program whose documentation you are reading, Macaulay 2.
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