From Howard Sun's 2002-03 CSGSO T-shirt (with apologies to Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell!)
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I have been on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since August 1998, with tenure since August 2004. I've been in the department longer than 80% of the faculty. I guess that makes me old. I am also an affiliate of the Computational Science and Engineering program, a member of the steering committee for the Applied Mathematics Program, and a member of the Center for Process Simulation and Design at UIUC.I'm a computational geometer. I was the PC chair for SOCG 2007. I'm the area chair of the CS department's algorithms group. I teach theory classes. I apply math. I talk to myself. Im in ur pointz, dulizing yr Vornoi.
I was affiliated with six other universities before I came to UIUC. In previous non-academic lives, I wrote Macintosh and Apple //gs software, spun records at a college radio station, and taught knot tying at Boy Scout summer camp. I still dislike Microsoft, I still listen to weird music, and I still tie my shoes faster than most people. I have the lowest undergraduate GPA (2.4/4.0) of any professor I've ever met, but some of my colleagues came close. I really shouldn't be proud of that.
It must be possible to replace in all geometric statements the words point, line, plane by table, chair, beer mug.- David Hilbert, on the axiomatic method in mathematicsI believe in the third dimension, but not the other two.
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Jeff Erickson (jeffe@cs.uiuc.edu) 27 Aug 2008