Peter Denning#
| Membership Number: | 6479 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://denningassociates.com/denning |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-5278-2305 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 - present Distinguished Professor, Dept Chair, Computer Science, Naval Postgraduate School
- 1992 - 2002 Professor, Department Chair, Associate Dean, Vice Provost, Computer Science, George Mason University
- 1983 - 1992 Director Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS), NASA-Ames Research Center
- 1972 - 1983 Associate Professor, Professor, Dept Head, Computer Science, Purdue University
- 1968 - 1972 Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
- 1964 - 1968 Research Associate, MIT Project MAC, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Fields of Scholarship
- Computer security
- Operating systems architecture and principles
- Computational thinking, curriculum, education
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning foundations
- Great principles of computing
- Computer systems performance modeling and evaluation
- Internet architecture, protocols, community
Honours and Awards
- 1959 Grand Award, Southern Connecticut Science Fair
- 1971 Princeton Outstanding Faculty Award
- 1982 IEEE Fellow
- 1984 AAAS Fellow
- 1984 Concordia Honorary Doctor of Laws
- 1985 Manhattan College, Honorary Doctor of Science
- 1989 ACM Distinguished Service Award
- 1989 CRA Computing Research Award
- 1993 ACM Fellow
- 1996 ACM Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award
- 1999 ACM Outstanding Contribution Award
- 1999 ACM SIGCSE Outstanding Educator Award
- 2002 George Mason University Best Teacher Award
- 2002 Pace University, Honorary Doctor of Science
- 2003 Commonwealth of Virgina Teaching Excellent Award
- 2007 NSF CISE Distinguished Education Fellow
- 2009 ACM SIGCSE Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2009 Internet Society Postel Award for CSNET
- 2016 NPS Menneken Award for Lifelong Research
- 2021 IEEE Computer Society Pioneer Award
- 2021 Sigma Xi Fellow
- +8 best papers awards 1968 - 2020
