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Andrew Odlyzko: Director of the new Digital Technology Center (DTC)

The University of Minnesota has recently hired Andrew Odlyzko as the first director of the new Digital Technology Center (DTC); Assistant Vice President for Research; ADC Telecommunications Chair Professor; and Professor of Mathematics. He is the second mathematician to be hired as part of this initiative. Professor Hans Othmer, a distinguished expert in computational biology, who joined the math faculty two years ago, is also a member of the center. The Digital Technology Center which, effective winter 2002, will be located in a newly remodeled Walter Library building, is the cornerstone of the university's digital technology initiative. The center has three main objectives: to advance the university as a national leader in digital and information technology; to enable the university to produce graduates able to meet the workforce needs of high-technology industries; and to build alliances between the university, government, other educational institutions and industry. In addition, it will house the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, the Laboratory for Computational Science and Engineering, and the Telecommunications and Advanced Networking Laboratory. The research foci of the center include telecommunications and advanced networking, software storage and Internet technologies, data storage and visualization, electronic commerce and digital publishing, bioinformatics and computational biology.

Odlyzko comes from AT&T Labs, where he was head of the mathematics and cryptography research department since 1996 and held other high level positions there for nearly two decades. A world-renowned expert on computational complexity, cryptography and coding theory, he has been quoted in the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, U.S. News and World Report, Fortune and Business Week, among others. "Andrew Odlyzko is not only a brilliant, internationally renowned mathematician, he also has the vision and interest in the broader aspects of digital technology, such as e-commerce, software engineering, telecommunications, computational science and distributed systems, that will enable him to lead the Digital Technology Center to world prominence," said H. Ted Davis, Dean of the Institute of Technology and chair of the search committee for the director of the Digital Technology Center. "He is a tremendous intellectual addition to the University of Minnesota." (See also the section "Welcoming the Incoming Faculty" at the beginning of this Newsletter.)

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