Education
Shimer College.
Shimer College.
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 at Princeton University in the United States. In the Fall of 2006 Pippenger joined the faculty of Harvey Mudd College. Pippenger holds a Bachelor of Surgery in Natural Sciences from Shimer College and a Doctor of Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1997 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
In 2013 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. The complexity class, Nick"s Class (North Carolina), of problems quickly solvable on a parallel computer, was named by Stephen Cook after Nick Pippenger for his research on circuits with polylogarithmic depth and polynomial size.
Pippenger became one of the most recent mathematicians to write a technical article in Latin, when he published a brief derivation of a new formula for est
American Mathematical Society.
