Curriculum Vitae

Kenneth Steiglitz

Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science Emeritus and Senior Scholar, Princeton University

Born:

January 30, 1939, Weehawken, New Jersey

Mailing address:

Department of Computer Science
35 Olden Street
Princeton University
Princeton, N.J. 08540

Telephone:

609-258-4629

FAX:

609-258-1771

Email:

ken at cs dot princeton dot edu

Web page:

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken

Education:

B.E.E. magna cum laude (1959), New York University

M.E.E. (1960), New York University

Eng.Sc.D. (1963), New York University

Professional Appointments:

1963-67 Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

1967-73 Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

1973- Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University

Honors:

Fellow of the IEEE, 1981

Technical Achievement Award of the Signal Processing Society, 1981

IEEE Centennial Medal, 1984

Signal Processing Society Award, 1986

Fellow of the ACM, 1997

School of Engineering Distinguished Teacher Award, 1997

IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000

Current Research Interests:

Information processing with solitons; auction theory and applications; agent-based market simulation

Courses Taught (2007- ):

COS 126 ("General Computer Science")

COS 323 ("Computing for the Physical and Social Sciences")

COS 444 ("Electronic Auctions")

COS 576 ("Nonstandard Computation")

FRS 119 ("Beyond Silicon: The Future(s) of Computers")

University Service:

Director, Program in Applications of Computing

Acting Chair, Computer Science (Spring 2007)

Committee for Certificate Program in Quantitative and Computational Biology

Committee for Certificate Program in Finance

Committee for Certificate Program in Musical Performance

Other Service:

Editorial board, International Journal of Unconventional Computing

Editorial board, Journal of Cellular Automata

Program committee, NOVEL COMPUTING SUBSTRATES: Workshop at the Unconventional Computation
          2009 Conference, September 7-11, 2009, Ponta Delgada (Azores), Portugal

Program committee, AUTOMATA 2008, Cellular Automata Theory and Applications, June 12-14, 2008,
          Bristol, UK

Program committee, Workshop on Unconventional Computing, VIIIth European Conference
          on Artificial Life (ECAL2005), Sept. 5-9, 2005, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK

Advisory Committee for the American Numismatics Society Photofile Project

• The Absurd book of Consciousness: How to Enjoy the Mystery and Raise Happy Robots, independently published on Amazon KDP, 2024.

• Consciousness at Risk: The Perilous Future of Human and Computer Minds, independently published on Amazon KDP, 2022.

• The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became Digital, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2019. (Translated into Chinese, Japanese.)

• Snipers, Shills, and Sharks: eBay and Human Behavior, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2007.

• A DSP Primer, with Applications to Digital Audio & Computer Music, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1996; Dover, New York, 2020.

• Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity, (with C. H. Papadimitriou), Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1982; Dover, New York, 1998. (Translated into Russian, Chinese.)

• Introduction to Discrete Systems, John Wiley, New York, 1974. (Translated into Polish.)

Book chapters

• " Computing with Classical Soliton Collisions", M.H. Jakubowski, K. Steiglitz, R. Squier, Chapter 12 in Advances in Unconventional Computing, Volume 2: Prototypes, Models and Algorithms, pp. 261-295, A. Adamatzky (ed.), Springer, 2017.

• " Soliton-Guided Quantum Information Processing", K. Steiglitz, Chapter 13 in Advances in Unconventional Computing, Volume 2: Prototypes, Models and Algorithms, pp. 297-307. A. Adamatzky (ed.), Jan. 2017, Springer, 2017.

• "Computing with Solitons", D. Rand and K. Steiglitz, in Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, (R. A. Meyers, ed.), Springer, Heidelberg, 2015. Springer link

• " Analyzing and simulating fracture patterns in Theran wall paintings", H. Shin, C. Doumas, T. Funkhouser, S. Rusinkiewicz, K. Steiglitz, A. Vlachopoulos, T. Weyrich, J. Computing and Cultural Heritage, J. Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), Volume 5, Issue 3, October 2012.

• " Making beam splitters with dark soliton collisions", K. Steiglitz, Phys. Rev. A, 82, 043831, October 2010.

• " Soliton-guided phase shifter and beam splitter", K. Steiglitz, Phys. Rev. A, 81, 033835, March 2010.

• " Photon trapping and transfer with solitons", K. Steiglitz and D. Rand, Phys. Rev. A, 79, 021802(R), Feb. 2009.

• " Observation of temporal vector soliton propagation and collision in birefringent fiber", D. Rand, I. Glesk, C.-S. Brès, D.A. Nolan, X. Chen, J. Koh, J.W. Fleischer, K. Steiglitz, P.R. Prucnal, Phys. Rev. Lett., 98, 053902, Feb. 1, 2007.

• " Analyzing fracture patterns in Theran wall paintings", H. Shin, C. Doumas, T. Funkhouser, S. Rusinkiewicz, K. Steiglitz, A. Vlachopoulos, T. Weyrich, Proc. 11th Int. Symp. on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (VAST), A. Artusi, M. Joly-Parvex, G. Lucet, A. Ribes, D. Pitzalis (eds.), Paris, France, 21-24 September 2010.