Peter J. Denning is Professor of Computer
Science and University Coordinator for Process Reengineering
at George Mason University. He served previously as vice
provost for continuing professional education, associate
dean for computing, and chair of the Computer Science
Department in the School of Information Technology and
Engineering.
He is founding director emeritus of the Hyperlearning
Center, formerly the Center for the New Engineer, founded
in 1993. He was also the founding director of the Research
Institute for Advanced Computer Science at the NASA
Ames Research Center, was co-founder of CSNET, and
was head of the computer science department at Purdue
University.
Dr. Denning received his Ph.D. from MIT. He was president
of the Association for Computing Machinery 1980-82,
chair of the ACM publications board 1992-98 — where
he led the development of the ACM digital library,
and is now chair of the ACM Education Board and chair
of the ACM Information Technology Profession Initiative.
He has published six books and 270 articles on computers,
networks, and their operating systems, and is working
on three more books. He holds two honorary degrees,
three professional society fellowships, two best-paper
awards, two distinguished service awards, the ACM Outstanding
Contribution Award, the ACM SIGCSE Outstanding CS Educator
Award, and the prestigious ACM Karl Karlstrom Outstanding
Educator Award.
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