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Stephen F. Weiss is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his BS in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1966, and his Ph.D. in computer science in 1970 from Cornell University.

His research interests include information storage and retrieval, and computer science education. Dr. Weiss has won several campus teaching awards: the Tanner Award in 1983; the Computer Science Students Association Teaching Award in 1994-95, and the Board of Governors' Award for Teaching Excellence in 1997. He was named North Carolina Professor of the Year in 1997 by the Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, and was awarded the Thomas Jefferson Award in 2007.  Dr. Weiss served as department chairman from 1989 - 2004.