John Hopcroft
John Edward Hopcroft (born October 7, 1939) is an American theoretical computer scientist. His textbooks on theory of computation (also known as the Cinderella book) and data structures are regarded as standards in their fields. He is the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science at Cornell University, Co-Director of the Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies at Peking University, and the Director of the John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Hopcroft in 2006 at ITMO University | |
| Born | October 7, 1939 Seattle, Washington |
| Alma mater | Seattle University Stanford University |
| Awards | Turing Award (1986) Member of the National Academy of Sciences Member of the National Academy of Engineering Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery |
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| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Cornell University, Princeton University, Stanford University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Thesis | Synthesis of Threshold Logic Networks (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Mattson |
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| Website | www |
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