A&T Names Williams Chair of Computer Science Department

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August 15, 2003

A&T Names Williams Chair of Computer Science Department

Greensboro, N.C. - Dr. Kenneth Williams has been named chair of the Computer Science Department at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. The associate professor has served as interim chair for the past three years.

Williams joined the university in the fall of 1992 when the computer science department was formed. His research interests
include distributed systems, network performance and object oriented high performance computing.

Williams earned his M.S. and B.S. degrees from Michigan Technological University. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science
in 1992 from the University of Minnesota. Williams worked at Michigan Tech for 12 years as manager of systems programming.