Kenneth Steiglitz
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Dr. Kenneth "Ken" Steiglitz is a professor of computer science
Computer science
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 at Princeton University
Princeton University
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. He was born in Weehawken, New Jersey
Weehawken, New Jersey
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 on January 30, 1939. He received his Doctor of Engineering Science from New York University
New York University
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 in 1963. In 1997 he was inducted as a Fellow
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 of the Association for Computing Machinery
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.

He has been teaching at Princeton University since 1963. His current research interests include Alternative models of computation, computing with solitons; auction theory and applications, agent-based market simulation.

He is Director of the Program in Applications of Computing.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM and has received numerous awards.

In June 2007 he was named Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science.

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