Overview Professor Richard Crandall (1947-2012), Reed College class of ’69, was a physics professor at Reed from 1978 through 1992 and thereafter Vollum Adjunct Professor of Science and founding Director of the Reed College Center for Advanced Computation. He directed the "computerization" of the Reed campus with the 5-Year Master Plan for Computer Resources (1983-87), founded several companies, consulted with Steve Jobs at Apple, set up an on-demand publishing firm for technical works, and inspired...