Newcomb Greenleaf is currently Professor of Computer Science at Columbia
University in New York City, where his principal responsibility is for
undergraduate education. Recently he was a member of a delegation of computer
science educators which visited China. He became involved with computers in
industry where he served as software manager for a computer graphics company.
His training was in mathematics (Ph.D. Princeton, 1961) and his current writing
concerns the relationships between computing and mathematics and the influence
of computers on our epistemology. He became a student of Trungpa Rinpoche in
1974 and has worked as an administrator and teacher at Vajradhatu and Naropa
Institute. At Naropa he helped to organize and direct several summer institutes
in cognitive science. He is married and has three children.
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