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David P. Dobkin

Computer scientist and university administrator

Field	Value
name	David Dobkin
birth_date	February 29, 1948
birth_place	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
citizenship	American
work_institution	Yale University
University of Arizona
Princeton University
alma_mater	MIT
Harvard University
doctoral_advisor	Roger W. Brockett
thesis_title	On the arithmetic complexity of a class of arithmetic computations
thesis_year	1973
doctoral_students	{{plainlist	1=
awards	{{Plainlist

University of Arizona Princeton University Harvard University

Bernard Chazelle
Michael Ian Shamos
Deborah Silver
Diane Souvaine
Ayellet Tal
Guggenheim Fellow (1988)
ACM Fellow (1997)
Fulbright Fellow (2000) David Paul Dobkin is an American computer scientist and the Phillip Y. Goldman '86 Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. His research has concerned computational geometry and computer graphics.

Early life and education

Dobkin was born February 29, 1948, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970 and then moved to Harvard University for his graduate studies, receiving a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1973 under the supervision of Roger W. Brockett.

Career

He taught at Yale University and the University of Arizona 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 The Geometry Center, a NSF-established research and education center at the University of Minnesota.

Dobkin has been on the editorial boards of eight journals.

Recognition

In 1997 he was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for his contributions to both fields.

References

"David Dobkin {{!}} Computer Science Department at Princeton University".
"Biography".
(January 14, 1999}}{{cite web). "Princeton's Computer Science Chair Appointed First Goldman Professor". Princeton University.
(Summer 2003). "David Dobkin named dean of faculty". Princeton University.
"Post-mortem on the Geometry Center". Math in the Media (AMS).
"Short vita".
"ACM Fellow citation".

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