Kenneth Steiglitz is a Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science at
Princeton University
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. He was born in
Weehawken, New Jersey
Weehawken is a township in the northern part of Hudson County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is located largely on the Hudson Palisades overlooking the Hudson River. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 17,197. on January 30, 1939. He received his Doctor of Engineering Science from
New York University
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In 1832, th ...
in 1963.
In 1997 he was inducted as a
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
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.
Steiglitz has been teaching at Princeton University since 1963. His current research interests include Alternative models of computation, computing with
solitons
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; auction theory and applications, agent-based market simulation. He is Director of the Program in Applications of Computing.
Steiglitz 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.
In 2018 he was named Senior Scholar.
References
Bibliography
*''Introduction to Discrete Systems'', John Wiley,
New York, New York, 1974.
*''A DSP Primer, with Applications to Digital Audio & Computer Music'', Prentice-Hall,