Nick Pippenger
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Nick Pippenger is a researcher in computer science. He has produced a number of fundamental results many of which are being widely used in the field of theoretical computer science, database processing and compiler optimization. He has taught at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada and in summer 2003 moved to teaching at Princeton University in the US. He has also achieved the rank of IBM Fellow at Almaden IBM Research Center in San Jose, California.
Nicholas Pippenger holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is married to Maria Klawe, dean of Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science.
The complexity class Nick's Class (NC) of problems quickly solvable on a parallel computer is named after Nick Pippenger for his research on circuits with polylogarithmic depth and polynomial size.de:Nick Pippenger