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If we’re talking about the Brown CS undergraduate program, perhaps the same thing could be said of Tom Doeppner, Royce Family Associate Professor of Teaching Excellence in Computer Science. (We’re making the bold claim because Tom, known to be self-effacing, is unlikely to say it of himself.) Tom was the fifth hire in the Department’s history and has served in multiple leadership roles, including Vice-Chair, Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Director of the Master’s program. He’ll retire at the end of the semester after almost five decades in the classroom. Tom came to Brown in 1976, when computer science was only an interest group within the Divisions of Applied Mathematics and Engineering. His memories of those early days are vivid. “One of the things we did in the beginning,” Tom says, “when we were trying to launch the Department, was to get computer equipment. In the late 70s, [former Brown CS faculty member] Bob Sedgewick [now William O. Baker *39 Professor in Computer Scien

Click the links that follow for more news about Tom Doeppner and other recent accomplishments by our faculty . “In his day,” author Charles G. Finney wrote of Kublai Khan, “he was China.” If we’re talking about the Brown CS undergraduate program, perhaps the same thing could be said of Tom Doeppner , Royce Family Associate Professor of Teaching Excellence in Computer Science. (We’re making the bold claim because Tom, known to be self-effacing, is unlikely to say it of himself.) Tom was the fifth hire in the Department’s history and has served in multiple leadership roles, including Vice-Chair,

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