Dr. Ellis Horowitz

Biography

Ellis Horowitz is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Southern California (USC) and has a deep background in computer science education. He earned his B.S. degree from Brooklyn College and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Prior to his tenure at USC, Horowitz held faculty positions at Cornell University and served as a visiting Professor at the M.I.T. and Israel Institute of Technology (Technion). He was the chairman of the Computer Science Department at USC from 1990 to 1999, during which he also directed the Information Technology Distance Education program at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering. His responsibilities included overseeing the Distance Education Network (DEN), which delivered more than 200 graduate engineering courses annually to over 1,000 students. Horowitz has authored ten books and over eighty journal articles on topics such as data structures, algorithms, and software design. He has also served as a principal investigator on research contracts with NSF, AFOSR, ONR, and DARPA. In addition to academia, Horowitz has acted as a consultant in the legal community, focusing on intellectual property issues, and has participated in significant legal cases including Yahoo v Google and RIAA v LimeWire.

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