Joseph O'Rourke
Joseph O'Rourke is the Olin Professor and chair of Computer Science. He obtained his Ph.D. in computer science from University of Pennsylvania in 1980, and was Assistant and then Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University, before moving to Smith in 1988 to found and chair the Computer Science department.
His research is in the field of computational geometry, where he has published a monograph (Oxford, 1987), a textbook (Cambridge, 1994; 2nd ed. 1998), and coedited the 1500-page Handbook of Discrete and Computational Geometry (CRC Press, 1997; 2nd ed. 2004). He completed a new monograph (Cambridge, 2007) on folding and unfolding, coauthored with Erik Demaine. He was awarded the NSF Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars in 2001.
Phone: 413-585-3673
Office: McConnell Hall 212
E-mail: orourke@cs.smith.edu