Alfred Aho

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Works

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Chile

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5 total works indexed

1. Synthesis of graphene-based nanosheets via chemical reduction of exfoliated graphite oxide

   · 2007 · cited 13,137x

2. Mutation and Cancer: Statistical Study of Retinoblastoma

   · 1971 · cited 5,405x

3. G PROTEINS: TRANSDUCERS OF RECEPTOR-GENERATED SIGNALS

   · 1987 · cited 5,001x

4. Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2022 Update: A Report From the American Heart Association

   · 2022 · cited 4,828x

5. The Somatic Genomic Landscape of Glioblastoma

   · 2013 · cited 4,495x

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Quotes

• “Fundamentally, computer science is a science of abstraction — creating the right model for thinking about a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.”

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Key facts

Born

Alfred Vaino Aho , ( 1941-08-09 ) August 9, 1941 (age 84) , Timmins , Ontario, Canada

Education

University of Toronto ( BASc ) Princeton University ( MA , PhD )

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 NAS Member Turing Award (2020)

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

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