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| Born | Richard Edwin Stearns (1936-07-05)July 5, 1936 (age 89) |
| Education | Carleton College (BA) Princeton University (MA,PhD) |
| Awards | ACMTuring Award(1993) Frederick W. Lanchester Prize(1995) |
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| Institutions | University at Albany |
| Doctoral advisor | Harold W. Kuhn |
| Doctoral students | Madhav V. Marathe Thomas O'Connell |
Richard Edwin Stearns (born July 5, 1936) is an Americancomputer scientist who, withJuris Hartmanis, received the 1993ACMTuring Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field ofcomputational complexity theory".[1] In 1994 he was inducted as aFellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Stearns graduated with a B.A. inmathematics fromCarleton College in 1958.[2] He then received hisPh.D. in mathematics fromPrinceton University in 1961 after completing a doctoral dissertation, titledThree personcooperative games without side payments, under the supervision ofHarold W. Kuhn.[3] Stearns is nowDistinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at theUniversity at Albany, which is part of theState University of New York.[4]
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