Juris Hartmanis

E518232

Juris Hartmanis was a pioneering computer scientist best known for co-founding the field of computational complexity theory and sharing the 1993 Turing Award for his fundamental contributions.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Juris Hartmanis canonical 4
Hartmanis 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Latvian American person
human
theoretical computer scientist
academicDegree PhD in mathematics
awardReceived Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Guggenheim Fellowship
Member of the National Academy of Engineering
Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Turing Award
citizenship United States of America
countryOfBirth Latvia
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1928-07-05
dateOfDeath 2022-07-29
doctoralAdvisor Robert P. Dilworth
doctoralThesisTitle Theory of partial algebras
doctoralThesisYear 1955
educatedAt California Institute of Technology
University of Kansas
University of Marburg
employer Cornell University
General Electric Research Laboratory
familyName Hartmanis
linked to: Juris Hartmanis
fieldOfWork computational complexity theory
computer science
theoretical computer science
givenName Juris
influenced development of complexity classes
formal study of computational resources
knownFor Hartmanis–Stearns theorem
founding work in computational complexity theory
time hierarchy theorem
languageSpoken English
Latvian
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Association for Computing Machinery
National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Sciences
notableStudent Dexter Kozen
placeOfBirth Riga
placeOfDeath Ithaca, New York
positionHeld director of the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Computation Research
founding chair of the Cornell computer science department
professor of computer science at Cornell University
TuringAwardFor fundamental contributions to the theory of computational complexity
TuringAwardSharedWith Richard E. Stearns
TuringAwardYear 1993

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

EATCS Award notableRecipient Juris Hartmanis
Juris Hartmanis familyName Hartmanis
linked to: Juris Hartmanis
Richard E. Stearns coAuthor Juris Hartmanis
Richard E. Stearns notableStudent Juris Hartmanis
Stephen A. Cook notableStudent Juris Hartmanis