Robert W. Floyd

Robert Willoughby Floyd was an American computer scientist, engineer, and university teacher. Born in New York City in 1936, he was educated at the University of Chicago. His professional career included positions at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University, where he worked in the field of computer science. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Association for Computing Machinery.

Floyd received several honors, including the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Turing Award, the Computer Pioneer Award, and ACM Fellow status. He is recognized in the Turing Award collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. His notable work includes the publication *The language of machines*. He was married to Christiane Floyd and had doctoral students such as Ron Rivest, Jay Earley, Zohar Manna, and Robert Tarjan. Floyd died in Stanford in 2001.