Allen Downey is a Staff Producer at Brilliant and Professor Emeritus at Olin College of Engineering. He has taught computer science at Wellesley College, Colby College and U.C. Berkeley. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley and a Master's Degree from MIT.

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