David Paul Dobkin is an American computer scientist and the Phillip Y. Goldman '86 Professor of

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. His research has concerned computational geometry and

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Early life and education

Dobkin was born February 29, 1948, in

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. He received a B.S. from the

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in 1970 and then moved to

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for his graduate studies, receiving a Ph.D. in

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in 1973 under the supervision of Roger W. Brockett.

Career

He taught at

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and the

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before moving to Princeton in 1981. He was initially appointed to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Princeton and was subsequently named one of the first professors of Computer Science when that department was formed in 1985. In 1999, he became the first holder of the Goldman chair after its namesake donated two million dollars to the university. He was chair of the Computer Science Department at Princeton from 1994 to 2003, and in 2003 was appointed Dean of the Faculty. David Dobkin also chaired the governing board of

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, a NSF-established research and education center at the

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. Dobkin has been on the editorial boards of eight journals.

Recognition

In 1997 he was selected as a

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of the

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for his contributions to both fields.

References

External links

Dobkin's web site
at the Princeton Computer Science department

at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dobkin, David P. 1948 births Living people Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Harvard University alumni Yale University faculty University of Arizona faculty Princeton University faculty American computer scientists Researchers in geometric algorithms Computer graphics researchers 1997 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Taylor Allderdice High School alumni

Early life and education

Career

Recognition

References

Further reading

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