Education
Williams has a PhD in Computer Science from New York University (advisor Prof Herbert Freeman) and a BSc (1st Hons) from Imperial College, London. He has worked at Philips (researcher at Mullards in England), New York University (as an assistant professor), and IBM (as a researcher). He has always been very involved with professional societies and universities.
His technical experience is in image and data management, computer workstations, character recognition, multimedia and storage systems; as well as managing projects in these and many other related areas.
He is a member of the Dean of Engineering's advisory boards at UC Santa Cruz and at UC Merced. He is a Board member of Schmahl Sciences Workshops, and a program evaluator in ABET (Computer Science) for Universities.
