Kenneth Keeler (Born 1961) is an American comic writer and producer. He has written for numerous TV series, most notably The Simpsons and Futurama.
After graduating from St. John's School in Houston, Texas, he studied applied mathematics at Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude in 1983. He earned a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1990; his doctoral thesis was on Map Representations and Optimal Encoding for Image Segmentation.
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Kenneth Keeler (Born 1961) is an American comic writer and producer. He has written for numerous TV series, most notably The Simpsons and Futurama.
After graduating from St. John's School in Houston, Texas, he studied applied mathematics at Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude in 1983. He earned a Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 1990; his doctoral thesis was on Map Representations and Optimal Encoding for Image Segmentation.
After earning his doctorate, Keeler joined the Performance Analysis Department at AT&T; Bell Laboratories. He soon left Bell Labs to write for David Letterman and subsequently for various sitcoms, including several episodes of Wings, News Radio, The Simpsons (where he caught harsh criticism from fans for writing the season nine episode "The Principal and the Pauper"), Futurama, and The Critic, as well as the short-lived Fox claymation show The PJs.
Keeler was instrumental in the creation of Futurama, and served as a co-executive producer in its first...
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