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Richard E. Stearns
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American computer scientist
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Richard E. Stearns is an American computer scientist, engineer, university teacher, and editor born in 1936 in Caldwell. He has worked at the State University of New York at Albany, New York University, and General Electric, and is affiliated with the University of Virginia. Stearns is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and was educated at Princeton University and Carleton College under the doctoral advisor Harold W. Kuhn.
His professional focus includes computer science, mathematics, and computational complexity theory. He has received the Turing Award, the Frederick W. Lanchester Prize, and ACM Fellow status, and holds the title of distinguished professor. Stearns speaks English and has an Erdős number of 3. He is recognized in the Turing Award collection.
Stearns is also an author with three works listed in the Open Library, including The Hughes site, Some Indian village sites of tidewater Maryland, and Unfinished.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- The Hughes site
- Some Indian village sites of tidewater Maryland
- Unfinished
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Key facts
- Born
- Richard Edwin Stearns , ( 1936-07-05 ) July 5, 1936 (age 89) , Caldwell, New Jersey
- Education
- Carleton College ( BA ), Princeton University ( MA , PhD )
- Awards
- ACM Turing Award (1993) , Frederick W. Lanchester Prize (1995)
- Institutions
- University at Albany
- Doctoral advisor
- Harold W. Kuhn
- Doctoral students
- Madhav V. Marathe , Thomas O'Connell
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Richard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Caldwell
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Educated at
- Carleton College
- Employer
- General Electric
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Harold W. Kuhn
- Field of work
- computational complexity theory
- Official website
- www.cs.albany.edu/FacultyStaff/profiles/res.html
- Image
- Dick Stearns (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1936-07-05
- Erdős number
- 3
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Commons category
- Richard Edwin Stearns
- curriculum vitae URL
- biocomplexity.virginia.edu/sites/default/files/staff/stearns_cv.pdf
- affiliation
- University of Virginia
- different from
- Richard Stearns
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Richard Edwin Stearns (born July 5, 1936) is an American computer scientist who, with Juris Hartmanis, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory". In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Stearns graduated with a B.A. in mathematics from Carleton College in 1958. He then received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in 1961 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titled Three person cooperative games without side payments, under the supervision of Harold W. Kuhn. Stearns is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University at Albany, which is part of the State University of New York.
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