Franco P. Preparata

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Franco P. Preparata (born December 1935) is a computer scientist, the An Wang Professor of Computer Science at Brown University.

He is best known for his 1985 computational geometry book with Michael Shamos, for many years the standard textbook in the field, but Preparata has worked in many other areas of computer science: his initial work was on coding theory, and his 1981 paper in distributed computing describing the cube-connected cycles computer communications network is still highly cited, as is his 1967 paper on fault diagnosis.

His 1991 paper with Zhou and Kang on interconnection delays in VLSI was awarded the 1993 Darlington Best Paper Award by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and he has attracted media coverage for his more recent work in computational biology.

Preparata was born in Italy in December, 1935. He received a doctorate from the University of Rome in 1959.

After a postdoctorate at CNR and several years of working in industry he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1965, where he stayed for many years, advising 16 Ph.D. students there. He received his Italian Libera Docenza in 1969. In 1991, Preparata moved