Biography
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 ". [ 1 ] 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. [ 2 ] 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 . [ 3 ] Stearns is now Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University at Albany , which is part of the State University of New York . [ 4 ] This biographical article relating to an American computer scientist is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information . Education: Carleton College BA Princeton University MA PhD Award Citation: ACM Turing Award (1993) Frederick W. Lanchester Prize (1995)
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)