Biography:Richard E. Stearns
Richard Edwin Stearns | |
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 Richard Stearns in 2009 | |
| Born | July 5, 1936 Caldwell, New Jersey |
| Alma mater | Carleton College (B.A.) Princeton University (Ph.D.) |
| Awards | ACM Turing Award (1993) Frederick W. Lanchester Prize (1995) |
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| Institutions | University at Albany |
| Doctoral advisor | Harold W. Kuhn |
Richard Edwin Stearns (born July 5, 1936) is an American computer scientist who, with Juris Hartmanis, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory".[1] In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Stearns graduated with a B.A. in mathematics from Carleton College in 1958.[2] He then received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1961 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled Three person cooperative games without side payments, under the supervision of Harold W. Kuhn.[3] Stearns is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University at Albany, which is part of the State University of New York.[citation needed]
Bibliography
- Stearns, R.E.; Hartmanis, J. (March 1963), "Regularity preserving modifications of regular expressions", Information and Control 6 (1): 55–69, doi:10.1016/S0019-9958(63)90110-4. A first systematic study of language operations that preserve regular languages.
- "On the computational complexity of algorithms", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (American Mathematical Society) 117: 285–306, May 1965, doi:10.2307/1994208. Contains the time hierarchy theorem, one of the theorems that shaped the field of computational complexity theory.
- Stearns, R.E. (September 1967), "A Regularity Test for Pushdown Machines", Information and Control 11 (3): 323–340, doi:10.1016/S0019-9958(67)90591-8. Answers a basic question about deterministic pushdown automata: it is decidable whether a given deterministic pushdown automaton accepts a regular language.
- Lewis II, P.M.; Stearns, R.E. (1968), "Syntax-Directed Transduction", Journal of the ACM 15 (3): 465–488, doi:10.1145/321466.321477. Introduces LL parsers, which play an important role in compiler design.
References
- ↑ Lewis, Philip M.. "Richard ("Dick") Edwin Stearns". Association for Computing Machinery. https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/stearns_1081900.cfm. Retrieved 10 March 2019.
- ↑ "Richard E Stearns - A.M. Turing Award Laureate". https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/stearns_1081900.cfm.
- ↑ Stearns, Richard Edwin (1961) (in English). Three person cooperative games without side payments. https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/2969972.
External links
- {{DBLP}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- Richard Edward Stearns at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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