Donald S. Fussell is Trammell Crow Regents' Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences, a member of the Computer Engineering Research Center of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and a member of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He has also served as Director of the Advanced Technology Division of the Applied Research Laboratory at UT. He obtained a BA in Mathematics and Social Sciences at Dartmouth College in 1973, and an MS and PhD in Mathematical Sciences at The University of Texas at Dallas in 1977 and 1980, respectively. His research interests include Computer Graphics, Computer Architecture, Design Automation, Networking and Fault-Tolerant Computing.