Faculty Profile
John MacCormick
Professor of Computer Science (2007)
Contact Information
on sabbatical 2024-25
Tome Scientific Building Room 242
717-245-1626
Bio
John MacCormick’s work in computer science spans several sub-fields, including computer vision, large-scale distributed systems, computer science education, and the public understanding of computer science. He is the author of three books, including Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers and What Can Be Computed?: A Practical Guide to the Theory of Computation. Dr. MacCormick holds 19 US patents on novel computer technologies and is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles; his Nine Algorithms book has been translated into eight languages. Dr. MacCormick was a research fellow at Linacre College, Oxford from 1999-2000, a research scientist at HP Labs from 2000-2003, and a computer scientist with Microsoft Research from 2003-2007. He joined the Dickinson faculty in 2007.
Education
- B.A., University of Cambridge, 1993
- M.S., University of Auckland, 1996
- Ph.D., University of Oxford, 2000