Biography
Juris Hartmanis (July 5, 1928 – July 29, 2022) was a Latvian-born American computer scientist and computational theorist who, with Richard E. Stearns , received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory ". Hartmanis was born in Latvia on July 5, 1928. [ 2 ] He was a son of Mārtiņš Hartmanis [ lv ] , [ 3 ] a general in the Latvian Army, and Irma Marija Hartmane. He was the younger brother of the poet Astrid Ivask . After the Soviet Union occupied Latvia in 1940 , Mārtiņš Hartmanis was arrested by the Soviets and died in prison. Later in World War II , the wife and children of Mārtiņš Hartmanis left Latvia in 1944 as refugees, fearing for their safety if the Soviet Union took over Latvia again. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] They first moved to Germany , where Juris Hartmanis received the equivalent of a master's degree in physics from the University of Marburg . He then moved to the United States , where in 1951 he received a master's degree in applied mathematics at the University of Kansas City (now known as the University of Missouri–Kansas City ) and in 1955 a Ph.D. in mathematics from Caltech under the supervision of Robert P. Dilworth . [ 8 ] The University of Missouri–Kansas City honored him with an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in May 1999. [ 9 ] After teaching mathematics at Cornell University and Ohio State University , Hartmanis joined the General Electric Research Laboratory in 1958. While at General Electric, he developed many principles of computational complexity theory. [ 15 ] In 1965, he became a professor at Cornell University. He was one of the founders and the first chair of its computer science department (which was one of the first computer science departments in the world). [ 16 ] Fields: Computer science Education: University of Marburg BS MS University of Missouri, Kansas City MS California Institute of Technology PhD Award Citation: Turing Award (1993)
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)