Ellis Horowitz
Dr. Ellis Horowitz received his B.S. degree from Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin. He was on the faculty there and at Cornell University before assuming his present post as Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He has also been a visiting Professor at M.I.T. and the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion). Dr. Horowitz has held numerous academic administrative jobs including Associate Chairman of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin At U.S.C. he was chairman of the Computer Science Department from 1990 to 1999.
Dr. Horowitz is the author of ten books and numerous journal articles and refereed conference proceedings on computer science subjects ranging from data structures, algorithms, and software design to computer science education. He has been a principal investigator on research contracts from NSF, AFOSR, ONR, and DARPA. He is a past associate editor for the journals Communications of the ACM and Transactions on Mathematical Software. He was an IBM Scholar from 1989-1993.
In 1999 Dr. Horowitz was appointed Director of Information Technology and Distance Education in USC's Viterbi School of Engineering. Part of his responsibilities included the Distance Education Network (DEN). As Director he oversaw an operation that offers more than 150 graduate engineering courses per year to more than 1,000 students. He introduced the webcasting of courses to DEN and in 2002 he received the R1edu prize for outstanding contributions to distance education.
Dr. Horowitz is an active consultant to the legal community, specializing in intellectual property issues. He was the founder and CEO of Quality Software Products, a California Corporation, from 1983 - 1993. The company designed and developed UNIX application software
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