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Peter J. Denning, PhD.

Peter Denning is Professor of Computer Science and University Coordinator for Process Reengineering at George Mason University. He served previously as vice provost for continuing professional education, associate dean for computing, and chair of the Computer Science Department in the School of Information Technology and Engineering. He is founding director emeritus of the Hyperlearning Center, formerly the Center for the New Engineer, founded in 1993. He was the founding director of the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS) at the NASA Ames Research Center, was co-founder of CSNET, and was head of the computer science department at Purdue.

Dr. Denning received a PhD from MIT and BEE from Manhattan College. He was president of the Association for Computing Machinery 1980-82, chair of the ACM publications board 1992-98 where he led the development of the ACM digital library, and is now chair of the ACM Education Board. He has published four books and 260 articles on computers, networks, and their operating systems, and is working on two more books. He holds two honorary degrees, three professional society fellowships, two best-paper awards, two distinguished service awards, the ACM Outstanding Contribution Award, the ACM SIGCSE Outstanding CS Educator Award, and the prestigious ACM Karl Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award.

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