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AUSTIN, Texas — J. Tinsley Oden, who is widely known as the founder of computational mechanics and the first director of what is now known as the Oden

Unbeknownst to J. Tinsley Oden, his passion for computational science as a graduate student at Oklahoma State would lay the groundwork for a world-renowned institute at UT. He cranked numerical algorithms on his desk calculator and taught himself to code with primitive languages like Fortran. In 1962, Oden left Oklahoma State with a new scientific...