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Everett "Rett" L. Bull (born August 16, 1949) is an American computer scientist. [1] He is the Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Pomona College in Claremont, California, [1] and held the Osler-Loucks Professor of Science and Professor of Computer Science endowed chair. [2]
Bull earned his bachelor's degree from Pomona College, graduating in 1971 with a degree in mathematics. [1] He then completed a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1976. [1]
Bull began teaching at Pomona in 1981. [1]
Bull is married to Jill S. Grigsby, a retired sociologist at Pomona. [3]
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Michigan Technological University is a public research university in Houghton, Michigan. Its main campus sits on 925 acres (374 ha) on a bluff overlooking Portage Lake. Michigan Tech was founded in 1885 as the first post-secondary institution in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and was created to train mining engineers to operate the local copper mines. Science, technology, forestry and business have been added to the numerous engineering disciplines, and Michigan Tech now offers more than 130 degree programs through its five colleges and schools. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".
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New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is a public research university in Newark, New Jersey with a degree-granting satellite campus in Jersey City. Founded in 1881 with the support of local industrialists and inventors especially Edward Weston, NJIT opened as Newark Technical School in 1885 with 88 students. The school grew into a classic engineering college – Newark College of Engineering – and then, with the addition of a School of Architecture in 1973, into a polytechnic university that now hosts five colleges and one school. As of fall 2020, the university enrolls about 11,600 students, 2,000 of whom live on campus.
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Kim B. Bruce is an American computer scientist. He is the Reuben C. and Eleanor Winslow Professor of Computer Science at Pomona College, and was previously the Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of Computer Science at Williams College. He helped establish the computer science departments at both institutions. His work focuses on the design of programming languages.
Jill Spencer Grigsby is an American sociologist whose areas of expertise include demography and sociology of the family. She is an emerita professor of sociology at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
Janice A. Hudgings is an American physicist and educator whose research interests include optics and semiconductor devices. She is the Seeley W. Mudd Professor of Physics at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
Maurice Leonard Seligman is an American molecular geneticist. He is the John P. and Magdalena R. Dexter Professor of Biology at Pomona College in Claremont, California. His work focuses on engineering homing endonucleases.
Nicole Y. Weekes is an American psychologist and neuroscientist whose work focuses on the psychological and biological response to stress. She is the Harry S. and L. Madge Rice Thatcher Professor of Psychological Science and Professor of Neuroscience at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
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