Ray Miller's Memoirs
Prof. Ray Miller, who retired from our department in 2002, is truly one of the pioneers of the field of computer science. He has had three successful careers – the first at IBM, where he helped build one of the world’s foremost computer science research programs and worked with many of the other leading theoretical computer scientists of his generation – people like Dick Karp, Shmuel Winograd and Nick Pippinger. Ray then had a second career at Georgia Tech, where he built their computer science program into one of the best in the nation and made significant contributions to network theory and computer science education. Finally, Ray completed his third career at Maryland, where he first served as Director of NASA’s CESDIS, and then, finally, became an “ordinary” professor, developing new courses and continuing his research in networks. Ray’s career, and his observations about the development of our field and the challenges that it currently faces, are described in his memoirs, which are available here in PDF format.
Photos
Here are Jordan Landes's pictures from the Workshop on Computing Theory and Systems, which was held on May 17, 2002 to commemorate Ray Miller's career.
Click on each image to enlarge it.
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