Curriculum Vitae

Kenneth Steiglitz

Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science

Born:

January 30, 1939, Weehawken, New Jersey

Mailing address:

Department of Computer Science
35 Olden Street
Princeton University
Princeton, N.J. 08544-2087

Telephone:

609-258-4629

FAX:

609-258-1771

Email:

ken at cs dot princeton dot edu

Web page:

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

Education:

B.E.E. magna cum laude (1959), M.E.E. (1960), Eng.Sc.D. (1963), New York University, New York, N.Y.

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 Recently:

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

SEAS Alliance Committee on Finance and Economics

Advisory Committee, Bendheim Center for Finance

Faculty/Staff Sexual Harassment Panel

Other Service:

Editorial board, International Journal of Unconventional Computing

Editorial board, Journal of Cellular Automata

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

• 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.

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

• Introduction to Discrete Systems, John Wiley, New York, 1974.

Book chapter

• "Computing with Solitons", D. Rand and K. Steiglitz, Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Springer, Heidelberg, in press (invited).

• " 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.

• " Isomorphism as Technology Transfer", K. Steiglitz, Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE, November 2005, pp. 171-173, (invited).

• Quantum phase noise reduction in soliton collisions and application to nondemolition measurements", D. Rand, K. Steiglitz, P. R. Prucnal, Phys. Rev. A 72, 041805(R) (Rapid Communications) (pp. 1-4), October 28, 2005.

• " Quantum theory of Manakov solitons", D. Rand, K. Steiglitz, P. R. Prucnal, Phys. Rev. A 71, 053805 (pp. 1-10), May 11, 2005.

• " Multicomponent gap solitons in superposed grating structures", D. Rand, K. Steiglitz, P. R. Prucnal, Optics Lett. 30, issue 13, July 2005, pp. 1695-1697.

• " Signal standardization in collision-based soliton computing", D. Rand, K. Steiglitz, P. R. Prucnal, Int. J. of Unconventional Computing, vol. 1, pp. 31-45, 2005.

• " Pairwise Competition and the Replicator Equation", J. Morgan and K. Steiglitz, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 65, 2003, pp. 1163-1172.

• " Collisions of two solitons in an arbitrary number of coupled nonlinear Schrödinger equations", M. Soljacic, K. Steiglitz, S. Sears, M. Segev, M. Jakubowski, R. Squier, Phys. Rev. Lett., 90, 25, 254102 (June 26, 2003).

• " Effects of Price Signal Choices on Market Stability," H. Mizuta, K. Steiglitz, E. Lirov, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, vol. 52, issue 2, October 2003, pp. 235-251.

• " The Spite Motive and Equilibrium Behavior in Auctions", J. Morgan, K. Steiglitz, G. Reis, Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, vol. 2, No. 1, Article 5, 2003.

• "Quantum Phase Noise Reduction in Soliton Collisions", D. Rand, K. Steiglitz, P. R. Prucnal, 18th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society, Sydney, Australia, October 23-27, 2005.

• "Vacuum-Induced Fluctuations of Manakov Solitons based on a Linearization Approximation", D. Rand, K. Steiglitz, P. Prucnal, 17th Annual Lasers and Electro Optics Society Meeting, Rio Mar, Puerto Rico, Nov. 7-11, 2004.

• "Noise-immune universal computation using Manakov soliton collision cycles," D. Rand, K. Steiglitz, P. Prucnal, Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications Topical Meeting, Toronto, Canada, April 4-7, 2004.

• "Frugality in path auctions," E. Elkind, A. Sahai, K. Steiglitz, ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) 2004, New Orleans, January 11-13, 2004.