Kenneth Steiglitz

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Kenneth Steiglitz is an American computer scientist and a longtime professor at Princeton University. He was born on January 30, 1939, in Weehawken, New Jersey. He earned his Doctor of Engineering Science from New York University in 1963 and began teaching at Princeton that same year. He holds the title of Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science and serves as Director of the Program in Applications of Computing.

Steiglitz’s work covers a range of topics, including alternative models of computation, solitons, auction theory, and agent-based market simulations. He has helped advance both theory and practical applications in computing.

Honors and career highlights:
- Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM (ACM Fellow in 1997)
- Named Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science in 2007
- Named a Senior Scholar at Princeton in 2018
- Doctoral students include Christos Papadimitriou and Leah Jamieson

Selected bibliography:
- Introduction to Discrete Systems (1974)
- A DSP Primer, with Applications to Digital Audio & Computer Music (1996)
- Combinatorial Optimization: Algorithms and Complexity (with C. H. Papadimitriou), 1982 (and 1998)
- Snipers, Shills, & Sharks: eBay and Human Behavior (2007)
- The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became Digital (2019)

For more information, see his Princeton University profile: www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/