William F. Miller

William F. Miller (1925–2017) was an American academic who was professor public and private management emeritus and a professor of computer science emeritus. He was a vice president and provost of Stanford University from 1971 to 1979, and president and CEO of SRI International from 1979 to 1990. He died on September 27, 2017, at the age of 91.

Early life and education Miller was born on November 19, 1925, in Vincennes, Indiana. He attended Purdue University, where he earned a BS in 1949, an MS in experimental physics in 1951, and a PhD in theoretical physics in 1956.

Career Miller was a director of the Applied Mathematics Division at Argonne National Laboratory, where he worked on problems in computational science. Miller was recruited to the faculty of Stanford University in 1964 by Frederick Terman, who was Stanford's vice president and provost at the time.

Awards and honors

Miller was given an honorary Doctor of Science degree from his alma mater, Purdue University, in 1972. In 1989, Tau Beta Pi recognized him as an Eminent Engineer.