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Duncan A. Buell received the B. S. and M. A. degrees in mathematics
from the University of Arizona and University of Michigan, respectively,
and in 1976 his Ph. D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois
at Chicago.  He was an assistant and then associate professor in the
Department of Computer Science at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
In 1986 he joined the Supercomputing Research Center (now the Center
for Computing Sciences), a division of the Institute for Defense
Analyses, doing high performance computing and computational mathematics
research for the National Security Agency.  He has written two books and
more than fifty research papers in number theory, document and information
retrieval, parallel algorithms, and computer architecture.
While at IDA he was project manager for the Splash 2 reconfigurable
computing project, one of the first successful ventures into the use
of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) as the programmable "CPU"
in what is now known as a reconfigurable a computing machine.
He was also one of the co-founders of the FPGAs for Custom Computing
Machines (FCCM) conference held yearly since 1993.
In 1997 Dr. Buell was a member of team that received a National
Meritorious Unit Citation from Director of Central Intelligence
George Tenet for the solution of a long-outstanding problem of
national significance.
He joined the University of South Carolina as Professor and Chair
of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in October 2000,
where he continues research in high performance and reconfigurable
computing and in computer security.  In 2005-2006 he served as Interim
Dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology.

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