Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
Nicholas Pippenger received his Ph.D. from MIT in Electrical Engineering in 1974. Prior to joining UBC Computer Science department as a professor in 1988, he was a staff member at IBM for sixteen years and at Draper Laboratories for three years. For his last two years at IBM he was an IBM Fellow. His other distinctions include a 1991 UBC Killam Research Prize, a 1983 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, and a 1981 IBM Outstanding Innovation Award. He has published over 90 research articles in the theory of computation and communication and discrete mathematics.