John Edward Hopcroft
American computer scientist · United States · Academics · Born 1939 · age 86
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Something wrong?John Edward Hopcroft is an American theoretical computer scientist. His textbooks on theory of computation and data structures are regarded as standards in their fields.
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Jay Wright ForresterBoth received Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
John CockeBoth received IEEE John von Neumann Medal
Majid SamiiBoth received Friendship Award
Luis CaffarelliBoth received Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Robin MilnerBoth received Turing Award
Michael ArtinBoth received Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied MathematicsAbout this person
John Edward Hopcroft is an American theoretical computer scientist. His textbooks on theory of computation and data structures are regarded as standards in their fields. He is a professor emeritus at Cornell University, co-director of the Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies at Peking University, the director of the John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Hopcroft Center on Computer Science at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He and Robert Tarjan won the 1986 ACM Turing Award.
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