Clifford Stein is a computer scientist, currently working as a professor at Columbia University in New York, NY. He earned his BSE from Princeton University in 1987, a MS from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989, and a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. ... Princeton University, located in Princeton, New Jersey, is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MITs greatest strengths are in science, technology, management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ...

He co-wrote the book Introduction to Algorithms together with Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald Rivest and Thomas H. Cormen, published in 2001, and is currently active as a teacher at Columbia. Charles Leiserson is a computer scientist, specializing in the theory of parallel computing and distributed computing, and particularly practical applications thereof; as part of this effort, he developed the Cilk multithreaded language. ... Professor Ron Rivest Professor Ronald Linn Rivest (born 1947, Schenectady, New York) is a cryptographer, and is the Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at MITs Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

See also

• Charles E. Leiserson
• Ronald Rivest