[6] In 1975 he received his doctorate from Stanford University,[3][4][6] becoming the first African American to earn his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from that school.
[8] Roscoe Giles is the founder and executive director for the Institution of African American E-Culture.
This foundation was developed to deal with the problem of the digital divide, or the lack of access to information technology by minority groups and other poor communities in the US.
[9] Giles was also a team leader in the National Science Foundation's National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) Education, Outreach and Training group, through which students and teachers learned to use advanced computing systems for understanding, modeling and solving problems.
[10][11] As of 2010, he is the chair of the United States Department of Energy's Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee.