{"293711":{"#nid":"293711","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Lipton Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERichard Lipton\u003C\/strong\u003E, a professor and the Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing in the School of Computer Science, has been elected as a fellow of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amacad.org\u0022\u003EAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/people\/richard-lipton\u0022\u003ELipton\u003C\/a\u003E joins the academy as a member of its 2014 class. Lipton gives the College of Computing its second American Academy fellow, as he joins \u003Cstrong\u003EZvi Galil\u003C\/strong\u003E, the John P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing, who was elected in 2005.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFounded in 1780, the American Academy stands as a national champion for scholarship, civil dialogue and knowledge and remains one of the oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers in the country. The Academy\u2019s membership has included more than 4,600 fellows and 600 foreign honorary members.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELipton\u2019s election was based on his strong reputation in computer science theory, cryptography and academics. His contributions also extend into program testing and software engineering. Along with Len Adleman, Lipton is considered one of the original pioneers of DNA computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELipton explores one of the most daunting puzzles in computation theory in his blog \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/rjlipton.wordpress.com\/\u0022\u003EG\u00f6del\u2019s Lost Letter and P=NP\u003C\/a\u003E and recently updated the book \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/People-Problems-Proofs-Essays-G%C3%B6dels\/dp\/3642414214\/ref%3Dsr_1_2?s=books\u0026amp;ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1393085404\u0026amp;sr=1-2\u0022\u003EPeople, Problems, and Proofs: Essays from G\u00f6del\u0027s Lost Letter\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003E, \u003C\/em\u003Ewhich he co-authored with Kenneth W. Regan of the University of Buffalo.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELipton earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Case Western Reserve University and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University. He taught at Yale, the University of California in Berkeley and Princeton before joining the Georgia Tech faculty in 2000.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn addition to Lipton and Galil, Georgia Tech can claim four other academy fellows, including \u003Cstrong\u003EG. Wayne Clough\u003C\/strong\u003E, president emeritus of Georgia Tech and former secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, elected in 2010;\u003Cstrong\u003E Mostafa El-Sayed\u003C\/strong\u003E, a Regents Professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Tech, elected in 1986;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EJim Meindl\u003C\/strong\u003E, Pettit Chair Professor of Microelectronics at Tech, elected in 1992; and \u003Cstrong\u003ERobert Nerem\u003C\/strong\u003E, an emeritus professor and former Parker H. Petit Distinguished Chair for Engineering in Medicine, elected in 1998.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"CoC professor joins short list of Georgia Tech notables as fellow of exclusive association"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECoC professor joins short list of Georgia Tech notables as fellow of exclusive association\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"CoC professor joins short list of Georgia Tech notables as fellow of exclusive association"}],"uid":"27897","created_gmt":"2014-04-28 16:09:27","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:18","author":"Phillip Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-04-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"71312":{"id":"71312","type":"image","title":"Richard Lipton - Profile","body":null,"created":"1449177367","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:16:07","changed":"1475894632","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:52","alt":"Richard Lipton - Profile","file":{"fid":"193510","name":"richardlipton.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/richardlipton_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/richardlipton_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":26511,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/richardlipton_0.png?itok=MLPo91pF"}}},"media_ids":["71312"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"92401","name":"Dick Lipton; American Academy of Arts and Sciences"},{"id":"114601","name":"Press Release"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPhillip Taylor\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ptaylor@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eptaylor@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["ptaylor@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}