Peter Brass

For my publications, you can look at

• google scholar
• dblp
• an old list which I stopped maintaining, but it contains also the mathematics papers from an earlier time in my career.

I have also several books,

• The Problem Book: P. Brass, W.O.J. Moser, J. Pach: Research Problems in Discrete Geometry, Springer-Verlag 2005, 500 pages, 528 open problems. Since then there has also been a chinese reprint and a japanese and a russian translation of this book. The problem book has a very long back story, and for me it was the high point and end of my discrete geometry period.
• The Data Structures Book: Peter Brass: Advanced Data Structures, Cambridge University Press 2008, still the only graduate-level book on this fundamental topic of computer science. Please do not download the pirated pdf files you find on the web; this is my work, and as author I protest against people stealing the result of my work. I provide sample implementations of many of the data structures in the book.
• The History Book: Peter Brass: History of Engineering at the City College of New York. This is still an unfinished project, but you can look at the pdf file here. I hope to finish the manuscript in summer 2019, in time for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the School of Engineering at City College.

I still believe in the importance of open problems to guide and shape a field; at some time I would like to write a counterpart of the Problem Book for Computer Science problems.

I spent in the last years much time with various governance roles; I am in the City College Faculty Senate, the CUNY University Faculty Senate, and many committees. I also was for a year the City College Ombudsperson, but I did not run for re-election; I hope others are doing this job more successful than me. I produced a Report whose issues are still valid. The most frustrating of my current committees is the executive committee of the computer science PhD program.

There are also many other sides to being a professor; here is a selection. All these are volunteer jobs, unpaid and without release time.

• I am active as ABET Program Evaluator for Computer Science. The Progam Evaluator receives the self study of a program (about 200 pages), checks it against the ABET standards, cross-checks against web pages and other materials, and finally does a three-day site visit in the fall.
• For some years I was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Student Research of the School of Engineering. It was a good journal, until it was discontinued for financial reasons.
• Several years I was coach of a programming contest team for the International Collegiate Programming Contest. In the Greater New York Regionals of 2016, we were the best public university team, ahead of Stony Brook.

My office is in NAC 8/216 (the inner office, the outer room does not belong to me).

Some outdated Personal Information.