Brief Bio

Charlie McDowell is Professor Emeritus in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. 

He earned his B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1974. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego in 1981 and 1983 respectively.

He retired in 2018 after 33 years at UCSC.

He continues to play trombone with a number of local groups and has recently discovered the joy of photographing birds.