James H. Davenport

James H. Davenport

James Harold Davenport (born 1953) is a British computer scientist who works in computer algebra. He is the Hebron and Medlock Professor of Information Technology at the University of Bath in Bath, England.

He is an author of a textbook about computer algebra and many papers. He has been Project Chair of the European OpenMath Project and its successor Thematic Network, with responsibilities for aligning OpenMath and MathML, producing Content Dictionaries and supervised a Reduce-based OpenMath/MathML translator, and was Treasurer of the European Mathematical Trust. He was Founding Editor-in-Chief of the London Mathematical Society's Journal of Computation and Mathematics.