Home News · 10 May 2026

CiSE special issue in memory of J. Tinsley Oden

Prashant K. Jha

The special issue of IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering honoring J. Tinsley Oden (1936–2023) is finalized, in the January–March 2026 issue. It was guest-edited with Danial Faghihi and Serge Prudhomme and collects eight contributions from his former students and colleagues, across three strands: his personal life, his part in building CSEM education at the Oden Institute, and his scientific contributions.

The preface is the piece I would point to first. It carries personal recollections and photographs contributed by his mentees, which is not the sort of thing that usually survives into a journal.

Thanks to Karen Willcox and Lorena A. Barba, who started the issue, and to CiSE’s editor Jeffrey Carver for seeing it through.

The first page of the guest editors’ preface, with Tinsley Oden’s portrait — the one now hanging in the lobby of the Peter O’Donnell Building at the Oden Institute. Published in Computing in Science & Engineering, January–March 2026, © 2026 IEEE.

Read the preface · the special issue