Daniel Ford

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Daniel Ford
Assistant Professor - Department Chair

Renshaw 210

503-883-2706

dford@linfield.edu

Professor Daniel Ford joined the Linfield faculty in 2004. He earned his bachelor’s degree in liberal studies from the University of California Santa Barbara and holds three different master’s degrees - a Master of Business Administration from Cornell University, a Master of Information Technology from UCLLN in Belgium, and a Master of Computer Science from Colorado State University. Prior to teaching at Linfield, Professor Ford spent four years in Liège, Belgium working for Siemens Nixdorf. He specializes in artificial intelligence, theoretical computer science, computational complexity, and graph theory, and teaches a variety of algorithms, programming, and database courses. On campus, Professor Ford advises the Linfield College Computer Science Club, whose teams have regularly placed at qualifiers for the International Collegiate Programming Contest. He is also directly involved in training students for the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition and the National Cyber League. Additionally, he is a member of the Academic Alliance of the National Center for Women and Information Technology, a non-profit organization that promotes diversity in computing.

Education

• B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara
• M.B.A. Cornell University; M.I.T. UCLLN (Belgium)
• M.C.S. Colorado State University