R Baker KearfottR. Baker Kearfott has authored a monograph on mathematically rigorous numerical methods for nonlinear algebraic systems of equations and nonlinear optimization problems, organized a major international conference on interval computations, edited seveal conference volumes, and provided several software packages for interval computations. He has been on the faculty of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette since 1977 and has participated in various modeling projects at the University of Louisiana and while at Exxon Research and Engineering. Read More Read Less