The Computer Science Colloquium

Ephraim Feig
(Motorola)

"My Math Life After CUNY"

    In the late 1970's, Prof. Louis Auslander introduced me to semisimple commutative algebras and their relationship to the Fourier Transform. This has lead me and my colleagues for over two decades to fast algorithms for signal processing, results in the complexity theory of algebraic computations, the design of algorithms for probably the most used transform today, and various diversions related to MRI, range-Doppler Radar and coding theory. And this is the story I want to share as I give my first presentation at CUNY Graduate Center since having left in 1980.


Speaker: Dr. Ephraim Feig is Senior Director of Services Architecture at Motorola. Previously he was CTO and Chief Marketing Officer of Kintera, a company he helped take public in 2003, and before that, spent 20 years at IBM. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, founding member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Service Computing, this year’s general chair of IEEE Service Computing Conference, and serves on the board of directors of the San Diego Symphony. He also serves on advisory boards at UCSD and USD. He holds 27 US patents and has published over 100 technical papers. He has a PhD in Mathematics from the CUNY Graduate Center and has taught at 8 universities, including Columbia University, the City College of NY, and UCSD.

The Colloquium is supported by generous contributions from the Bloomberg, Information Builders, Inc., and Netlogic, Inc.