Biography
Jeffrey David Ullman (born November 22, 1942) [ 2 ] is an American computer scientist and the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University . His textbooks on compilers (various editions are popularly known as the dragon book ), theory of computation (also known as the Cinderella book ), data structures , and databases are regarded as standards in their fields. He and his long-time collaborator Alfred Aho are the recipients of the 2020 Turing Award , generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science . [ 3 ] Ullman received a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering mathematics from Columbia University in 1963 and his PhD in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1966. He then worked for three years at Bell Labs . In 1969, he returned to Princeton as an associate professor, and was promoted to full professor in 1974. Ullman moved to Stanford University in 1979, and served as the department chair from 1990 to 1994. He was named the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science in 1994, [ 4 ] and became an Emeritus in 2003. [ 5 ] In 1994 Ullman was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery ; in 2000 he was awarded the Knuth Prize . [ 4 ] Ullman is the co-recipient (with John Hopcroft ) of the 2010 IEEE John von Neumann Medal "For laying the foundations for the fields of automata and language theory and many seminal contributions to theoretical computer science." [ 6 ] Ullman, Hopcroft, and Alfred Aho were co-recipients of the 2017 C&C Prize awarded by NEC Corporation. [ 7 ] Education: Columbia University BS Princeton University MS PhD Award Citation: ACM Fellow (1994) Knuth Prize (2000) IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2010) Turing Award (2020)
About the Turing Award
The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and is colloquially known as the "Nobel Prize of Computing."
Quick Facts
- Award: ACM A.M. Turing Award
- Added: 2026-02-07
- Source: Wikipedia
- Prize: $1,000,000 (USD)
- Presented by: ACM
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Notable Winners
- Donald Knuth (1974)
- Tim Berners-Lee (2016)
- Geoffrey Hinton (2018)
- Yoshua Bengio (2018)
- Yann LeCun (2018)