Michael J. Quinn
Professor
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Oregon State University
1148 Kelley Engineering Center
Corvallis, OR 97331-5501

Biography
Michael J. Quinn earned an honors B.S. in mathematics from Gonzaga University in 1977, an M.S. in computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1979, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Washington State University in 1983. From 1979 to 1981 he worked for Tektronix, Inc. as a software engineer. He was an assistant professor of computer science at the University of New Hampshire from 1983 to 1989, before joining Oregon State University in 1989. He served as interim Head of Computer Science in 1997-1998 and Head of Computer Science from 1998-2002.

Quinn is the author of dozens of refereed publications in the area of parallel computing. He has also authored or co-authored seven books in the areas of parallel computing, computer ethics, and computer literacy. Quinn is a member of the ACM, the IEEE, the IEEE Computer Society. He has received the "Golden Core" service award from the IEEE Computer Society.