Sorenson was born in Indiana, the son of two faculty members at Valparaiso University. His mother, Norma Acker, was a biology lecturer, and his father, John Sorenson, was a mathematics professor. Sorenson was the oldest of three children, and attended Valparaiso High School, graduating in 1982. He then attended Valparaiso University, studying mathematics and computer science, with a minor in physics, and receiving a Bachelor's in 1986. He attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, receiving a Masters degree in computer science in 1987, a Masters in mathematics in 1989, and a Ph.D in theoretical computer science in 1991.
He began teaching at Butler University in August 1991, was promoted to tenured professor in 2004,[1] and was appointed chair of the computer science department in 2005. In 2007, he was co-leader on a project to obtain a supercomputer for the school, entitled "Big Dawg."[2]
Writing
As of 2006, Sorenson has written over three dozen papers. His most well-known one is "Two Fast GCD Algorithms", 1994, which was used as a reference in Donald Knuth's book, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2, and many of his other papers have appeared in the ANTS conference proceedings.
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