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University of Pennsylvania.
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Richard Wexelblat
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His doctorate is believed by many and so reported by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to have been the first ever awarded by a formally recognized Computer Science department. (Note: not the first CS doctorate, but the first awarded by a CS department Note as well that Andy van Dam should share this distinction as he completed his CS dissertation at essentially the same time RLW 01/20/2012) He is no longer active in the computer field but is now an artisan woodturner. He is said to be the originator of Wexelblat"s scheduling algorithm: "Choose two of: good, fast, cheap.".
