Ellis Horowitz is an American computer scientist and Professor of

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and Electrical Engineering at the

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(USC). Horowitz is best known for his computer science textbooks on data structures and algorithms, co-authored with

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. At USC, Horowitz was chairman of the Computer Science Department from 1990 to 1999. During his tenure he significantly improved relations between Computer Science and the

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(ISI), hiring senior faculty, and establishing the department's first industrial advisory board. From 1983 to 1993 with Lawrence Flon he co-founded Quality Software Products which designed and built UNIX application software. Their products included two spreadsheet programs, Q-calc and eXclaim, a project management system, MasterPlan, and a floating license server, Maitre D. The company was sold to Island Graphics.

Education

* B.S. (Mathematics) Brooklyn College, 1964. * M.S. (Computer Science)

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, 1967. * Ph.D. (Computer Science) University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1969.

Peer-to-peer systems

Horowitz has been actively engaged as an

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testifying in numerous

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legal cases. Generally, he has represented the copyright owner, including individual record companies, the Recording Industry Association of America, and the

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. His testimony has been cited numerous times in various decisions and orders, in particular: * Horowitz was cited in the

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case. * His testimony was also cited in RIAA versus MP3tunes. * In several BitTorrent cases including

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versus isoHunt. More recently, Horowitz has represented

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(UMG) and others against the music streaming service Grooveshark.com. Summary judgment was awarded to UMG, with the decision citing Horowitz' expert reports.

Distance education

In 1999, Horowitz was appointed Director of

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and

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in USC's Viterbi School of Engineering. Part of his responsibilities included their satellite-based closed circuit instructional network. He renamed the organization USC's Distance Education Network (DEN) and moved course delivery from satellite to the Web. DEN currently offers numerous graduate level courses leading to master's degrees, primarily in computer science and electrical engineering. In 2000 he received an outstanding distance education educator award from R1edu.org.

Selected publications

Ellis Horowitz has published numerous technical articles and several books, including: * 1975. * 1984. * 2007.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Horowitz, Ellis 1944 births Living people People from New York City Brooklyn College alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni American computer scientists Computer science writers University of Southern California faculty American textbook writers