Background
Fischer, Patrick Carl was born on December 3, 1935 in St. Louis. Son of Carl Hahn and Kathleen (Kirkpatrick) Fischer.
Fischer, Patrick Carl was born on December 3, 1935 in St. Louis. Son of Carl Hahn and Kathleen (Kirkpatrick) Fischer.
Bachelor of Science, University of Michigan, 1957; Master of Business Administration, 1958; Doctor of Philosophy (Woodrow Wilson fellow, National Science Foundation fellow), Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1962.
Assistant professor, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1962-1965; associate professor, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, 1965-1968; visiting associate professor, U. B.C., 1967-1968; professor computer science, U. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 1968-1974; department chairman applied analysis and computer science, U. Waterloo, 1972-1974; professor department computer science, Pennsylvania State University, State College, 1974-1979; head department, Pennsylvania State University, 1974-1978; professor department computer science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1980-1998; department chairman, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1980-1995; professor emeritus, Vanderbilt University, since 1998. Member computing and information science grant selection committee National Research Council Canada, 1973-1976. Visiting professor University of California, Berkeley, 1986, Georgia Technology, 1987.
Fellow Society Actuaries. Member Association Computing Machinery (founder, Chairman.spl. interest group automata and computability theory 1968-1973), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Beta Gamma Sigma.
Married Linda Loomis, December 22, 1956 (divorced Jan 1967). 1 child, Carl; Married Charlotte Froese, April 2, 1967. 1 child, Carolyn.