Faith Ellen
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Faith Ellen (formerly known as Faith E. Fich) is a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto who studies distributed data structures and the theory of distributed computing.[1]
She earned her bachelor's degree and master's from the
lower bounds for cycle detection and parallel prefix sums.[2] She joined the faculty of the University of Washington in 1983, and moved to Toronto in 1986.[3] From 1997 to 2001, she was the vice chair of SIGACT,[4] the leading international society for theory of computation. From 2006 to 2009, she was chair of the steering committee for PODC, a top international conference for theory of distributed computing. In 2014, she also co-authored the book, Impossibility Results for Distributed Computing.[5]
She became a
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014.[6]
References
- ^ Faith Ellen, University of Toronto, retrieved 2015-01-08.
- ^ Faith E. Fich at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Career paths contrasted, Computing Research Association, 2005, retrieved 2015-01-08.
- ^ "Faith Ellen | Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing". simons.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
- Zbl 1396.68004.)
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link - ^ ACM Names Fellows for Innovations in Computing Archived 2015-01-09 at the Wayback Machine, ACM, January 8, 2015, retrieved 2015-01-08.