Martin Tompa
Martin Tompa graduated from Harvard University in 1974 and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1978. From 1978 to 1985 he was on the Computer Science faculty here at the University of Washington. From 1985 to 1989 he was on the staff of the IBM Research Division at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center and became manager of its Theory of Computation group. In 1989, he rejoined the Computer Science faculty at UW, and in 1998 and 1999 received the first two annual ACM Undergraduate Teaching Awards. In 2001 Martin became Adjunct Professor of Genome Sciences and in 2009 became Director of the UW's interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Computational Molecular Biology. Martin has always loved playing games. Games are great tools for learning to think logically but, more important, are an ideal part of happy family or social life. Martin writes a blog on the winning strategy of an Austrian card game called Schnapsen, which you can read at http://psellos.com/schnapsen/blog/