Juris Hartmanis (born July 7 , 1928 in Riga , Latvia ) is a prominent computer scientist who, with Richard E. Stearns , received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory ".
Latvia , he moved to Germany after the Second World War . He received the equivalent of a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Marburg , then emigrated to the United States for his Master's degree in Applied Mathematics at the University of Kansas City (now known as the University of Missouri-Kansas City ). He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Caltech .
General Electric Research Laboratory, developing and introducing computer science principles. In 1965 , he became a professor at Cornell University , where he helped to create its computer science department and was its first chairman.
References Hartmanis, J., and Stearns, R. E. On the computational complexity of algorithms. Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 117 (1965), 285--306.
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Juris Hartmanis , Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering at Cornell University, has been selected to receive CRA's Distinguished Service Award for 2000. Hartmanis is an eminent computer scientist and a co-recipient of 1993 ACM Turing Award. Juris Hartmanis recently completed a two-year term as the Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE).
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