Education
University of Latvia.
University of Latvia.
He was a pioneer in computational complexity theory and computational learning theory. Smith was program manager of the National Science Foundation"s theoretical computer science program, and editor of the International Journal of the Foundations of Computer Science, Theoretical Computer Science, and Fundamenta Informaticae. He held professorships at Purdue University and the University of Maryland, College Park.
He organized the first conferences on computational learning in the United States. in the 1980s.
He earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the State University at Buffalo in 1979, and received Habilitation degree from the University of Latvia in 1993. He was the author of the popular textbooks Theory of Computation: A Gentle Introduction and A Recursive Introduction to the Theory of Computation.
He was a member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.