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Willis K. King
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Willis K. King currently serves as the 2002 President of IEEE Computer Society. King has been involved in CS activities for more than 20 years. He served as first vice president for conferences & tutorials (2000), vice president of educational activities (1998), chair of the 2nd Symposium on Computer Architecture (1975), chair of the Southwestern Region (1976-82), chair of the Distinguished Visitor's Program (1980-86), and vice president for Area Activities (1987 and 1988). An active volunteer in computer science accreditation activities since its inception, he was a member of the executive committee of the Computer Science Accreditation Commission (1985-90) and CSAC chair (1990-91). He has been a director of the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB) since 1991 and served as the president (1993-95).
Dr. King received the Outstanding Contribution Award from the IEEE Computer Society in 1988, the Distinguish Service Awards from CSAC in 1991 and 1993, and the Meritorious Achievement Awards from the Educational Activities Board of IEEE in 1994. (S'66, M'69, SM'82) received the Dipl-Ing degree in 1963 from the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969, both in Electrical Engineering.
Dr. King has been a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston since 1969 and served as its Chairman from 1979-92.
Implementing Our Future Vision in 2002, IEEE Computer 35(1): 6-8 (2002)
http://www.computer.org/computer/co2002/r1006abs.htm
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