Joseph Traub

JOSEPH F. TRAUB is the Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. He was founding Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Columbia University from 1979 to 1989, and founding Chair of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies from 1986 to 1992. From 1971 to 1979 he was Head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie-Mellon University. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985. Traub is the founding editor of the "Journal of Complexity" and an associate editor of "Complexity". Among his current research interests is quantum computing. He is the author of some 120 papers and nine books including the recently published Complexity and Information.

Further reading on Edge: "The Unknown and The Unknowable: A Talk With Joseph Traub".

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