John Seely Brown, a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California and co-chair of the Deloitte Center for Edge Innovation, will give N.C. State's May commencement address.

Brown, formerly the chief scientist at Xerox Corporation and director of its Palo Alto Research Center, will speak May 9 at the RBC Center in Raleigh. The ceremony starts at 9 a.m.

Brown is a member of the National Academy of Education, a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a trustee of the MacArthur Foundation.

He will receive an honorary degree from NCSU, as will Sarita E. Brown, founding president of Excelencia in Education, and Wayne Fuller, Emeritus Distinguished Professor in Statistics and Economics at Iowa State. 

The honorary degree Brown will receive from NCSU will be his fifth. According to his website, he has also received honorary degrees from the University of Michigan, Brown University, London School of Business and Claremont Graduate School.

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