Stephen Cook
Also known as Stephen Arthur Cook, Stephen A. Cook, S. A. Cook
American-Canadian computer scientist
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Stephen Arthur Cook (born December 14, 1939) is an American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made significant contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity. He is a university professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science and Department of Mathematics.
Cook is considered one of the forefathers of computational complexity theory. He won the 1982 ACM Turing Award.
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1939 birthsAcademic staff of the University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and ScienceAmerican emigrants to CanadaAmerican fellows of the Royal SocietyAmerican theoretical computer scientistsCanadian fellows of the Royal SocietyCanadian theoretical computer scientistsComputer scientists of the University of TorontoFellows of the Association for Computing MachineryFellows of the Royal Society of CanadaHarvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni