Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 14:54:50 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 19:24:39 GMT Content-length: 1806 Short Biography of Richard Ladner

Short Biography of Richard Ladner

Richard E. Ladner, Professor, graduated from St. Mary's College of California with a B.S. in 1965 and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1971, at which time he joined the faculty of the University of Washington.

He has a number of research interests, most of them in theoretical computer science. He is currently investigating design and analysis of algorithms, both parallel and sequential. He has continuing interests in automata based computational complexity theory, distributed computing, and data compression.

He has supervised or co-supervised twelve students on their Ph.D. dissertations and five on their M.S. theses. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1985-86 and a Fulbright in 1993. He has served as an Area Editor for the Journal of the Association of Computing Machinery and and Editor for SIAM Journal on Computing. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computer and System Sciences. He is a Fellow of the ACM.

He can often be found holding office hours at the driving range where he is trying to perfect golf swing. He is fluent in American Sign Language and computer science theorese.



Berkeley, 1968


With Ginger at Mt. St. Helens, 1995