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Richard E. Stearns

1936 - Today

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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". 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard E. Stearns is the 32nd most popular computer scientist (up from 76th in 2019), the 2,093rd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,557th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Richard E. Stearns ranks 32 out of 245. Before him are Larry Page, Sudha Murty, George Dantzig, Arthur Samuel, Edgar F. Codd, and Ward Cunningham. After him are Sergey Brin, Hal Finney, Guido van Rossum, Tony Hoare, Ken Kutaragi, and Maurice Wilkes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Richard E. Stearns ranks 105. Before him are Roy Emerson, Leonel Sánchez, Julio María Sanguinetti, Carol Gilligan, Gianni Vattimo, and Christine Nöstlinger. After him are Masashi Watanabe, Ljubiša Samardžić, Anna German, Paul L. Smith, Santos Abril y Castelló, and Jean M. Auel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard E. Stearns ranks 2,093 out of 20,380. Before him are Jack Reed (1949), Michael Shannon (1974), Tom Ford (1961), Conrad Hilton (1887), Lee Remick (1935), and Richard Rodgers (1902). After him are Richard Jenkins (1947), Peter Diamond (1940), Charles W. Morris (1903), George Takei (1937), Eleanor F. Helin (1932), and Alice Walker (1944).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Richard E. Stearns ranks 22. Before him are Dorothy Vaughan (1910), Vint Cerf (1943), Larry Page (1973), George Dantzig (1914), Arthur Samuel (1901), and Ward Cunningham (1949). After him are Hal Finney (1956), Charles Bachman (1924), Ivan Sutherland (1938), Steve Russell (1937), Kevin Mitnick (1963), and David Patterson (1947).

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