Alfred Aho

Alfred Aho
Alfred Aho
	Alfred Aho in 2018
Born	Alfred Vaino Aho; August 9, 1941; Timmins, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian; American
Alma mater	University of Toronto; Princeton University;
Known for	Awk programming language; Principles of Compiler Design; Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools; Aho-Corasick algorithm;
Awards	Bell Labs Fellow (1984); FAAAS (1986); IEEE Fellow (1988); FACM (1996); IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2003); NAE Member; Turing Award (2020);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Columbia University
Thesis	Indexed Grammars: An Extension of Context Free Grammars (1968)
Doctoral advisor	John Hopcroft
Doctoral students	Krysta Svore; Gaurav Kc; Marc Eaddy; Marcio Buss;

Alfred Vaino Aho (born August 9, 1941) is a Canadian computer scientist best known for his work on programming languages, compilers, and related algorithms, and his textbooks on the art and science of computer programming.

Aho was elected into the National Academy of Engineering in 1999 for his contributions to the fields of algorithms and programming tools.

He and his long-time collaborator Jeffrey Ullman are the recipients of the 2020 Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science.

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