David Dill

Donald E. Knuth Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University

David L. Dill is the Donald E. Knuth Professor in the School of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He has been on the faculty at Stanford since 1987. He has an S.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1979), and an M.S and Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University (1982 and 1987). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Prof. Dill is the founder of VerifiedVoting.org, whose mission is “safeguarding elections in the digital age.” In 2004, he received the Electronic Frontier Foundations “Pioneer Award” for spearheading and nurturing the popular movement for integrityand transparency in modern elections.

The Rise of Factory-built Housing: Episode 2

Modular builders have taken the art of prefabrication to an entirely new level, where entire rooms with insulation, plumbing, and electric wiring are made in a factory. These rooms (called “modules”) are transported to a building site and then stacked next to and on top of one another to form a home in days. In the Hamptons, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other major cities, it’s now possible to build a beautiful modern home modularly for as much as 50% the cost of building with local contractors.

Image courtesy of David Dill

Predicting Our Future