Leonard Shapiro

Leonard D. Shapiro is an American computer scientist. He is a professor emeritus at Portland State University.

For the Russian political scientist, see Leonard Schapiro.

Education

Shapiro graduated from Reed College in 1965, Phi Beta Kappa. He earned a doctor of philosophy from Yale University in 1969.[1]

Career

Shapiro was an assistant professor of mathematics at University of Minnesota from 1969 to 1976 and was a visiting professor of economics from 1976 to 1977. He was the chairman of the division of mathematical sciences at North Dakota State University from 1977 to 1985. Shapiro was a visiting scholar at the computer science department at University of California, Berkeley in 1983. He was an associate and later full professor of computer science and business economics at North Dakota State University from 1977 to 1987. Shapiro was the chair of the computer science department at Portland State University from 1987 to 1994. He continues as a professor emeritus. Since 1994, Shapiro has served as the associate director and director of the Data Intensive Systems Center (DISC).[1]

Personal life

Shapiro is married to Elayne née Halpern. They have a son, Ari Shapiro.[2] He is the vice president of Congregation Neveh Shalom.[1]

gollark: Well, if you make a better, smarter government, we can talk about having it do more things then.
gollark: At least it's better than a government just throwing money at the system to try and give everyone a degree they might not actually *need* in a sensible market which didn't discriminate that way.
gollark: <@!330678593904443393> Somewhat, sure!
gollark: My problem with the whole free-college/university thing (again, see here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/06/against-tulip-subsidies/) is that it's just propping up what seems to basically just be an expensive and time-consuming signalling scheme at great cost.
gollark: Frequently.

References
  1. "Leonard Shapiro". web.cecs.pdx.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
  2. Moon, Deborah (2017-10-30). "Ari Shapiro considers all things". Oregon Jewish Life. Retrieved 2019-03-15.
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