Jan F. Prins

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Jan F. Prins is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He obtained his B.S. in 1978 in Mathematics from Syracuse University, M.S. in 1983 and Ph.D. in 1987 in Computer Science from Cornell University. His minor concentration was in Neurobiology. In 1976 he co-founded Digital Effects Inc., one of the first computer animation companies. Sample productions include portions of the film “TRON”. In 1978 he joined STSC, Inc., the leading worldwide APL timesharing services supplier, where he was a member of the APL development and implementation group. At Cornell he worked with Physics Nobel Laureate Kenneth Wilson and David Gries on the Gibbs language for scientific computing. In 1986 he was a research associate at the Univer