John E. Hopcroft
Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
PhD Stanford University, 1964
On January 1, 1994, I was appointed dean of the College of Engineering and
now oversee the ten academic departments that comprise the college as well
as various research units. My involvement with the Computer Science
Department continues through research on robust geometric algorithms,
modeling and simulation, and information capture and access.
In collaboration with the Design Research Institute, we are developing
technologies to facilitate information capture and access within an
engineering design environment. Among the technologies being researched
are distributed databases and persistent object storage, document image
processing and management, multimedia and user interface technology,
information science for heterogeneous data, knowledge representation and
organization, and remote collaboration technologies.
Professional Activities
- Member, National Research Council, Commission on Physical Sciences,
Mathematics, and Applications
- Member, National Science Board
- Member, Scientific Advisory Board, United States Air Force
- Member, National Academy of Engineering
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery
- Chairman, SIAM Board of Trustees
- Member, Scientific Advisory Committee for the David and Lucile
Packard Foundation
- Member, Sloan Research Fellowship Committee
- Advisory Board, Supercomputing Research Center, Institute for
Defense Analysis
- Editor: Oxford University Press International Series on Computer
Science, Algorithmica, Discrete and Computational Geometry
- Associate Editor: International Journal of Computational Geometry
and Applications, Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences,
Journal of Information Sciences
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