Ruth Silverman (born 1936 or 1937, died April 25, 2011)[1] was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for her research in computational geometry.
She was one of the original founders of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 1971.
[4] She was a faculty member at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, an associate professor at Southern Connecticut State College,[5] a computer science instructor at the University of the District of Columbia, and a researcher in the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland, College Park.
[6] She became known for her research in computational geometry and particular for highly cited publications on k-means clustering[KM] and nearest neighbor search.
[NN] Other topics in Silverman's research include robust statistics[LT] and small sets of points that meet every line in finite projective planes.