Clarence "skip" Ellis
Clarence A. Ellis · ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society · 2022
Dr Clarence "Skip" Ellis was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in computer science (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1969). He is also the first African-American to be elected as a fellow of the ACM for his contributions to computer science, which include 1 :