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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard E. Stearns has received more than 70,061 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Richard E. Stearns is the 76th most popular computer scientist (up from 127th in 2019), the 4,557th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,325th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Richard E. Stearns ranks 76 out of 245. Before him are Evelyn Berezin, Adi Shamir, Stephen Cook, Richard M. Karp, Sergey Lebedev, and Judea Pearl. After him are Jan Koum, Kathleen Antonelli, Joseph Sifakis, Radia Perlman, Ruth Teitelbaum, and Gil Amelio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Richard E. Stearns ranks 267. Before him are Albert Ayler, Judea Pearl, Jair Marinho, Alejandro Maldonado, Stella Stevens, and Antonin Scalia. After him are August Schellenberg, Kigeli V of Rwanda, Mustafa Ould Salek, Jan Tříska, Fang Lizhi, and Natalya Gorbanevskaya.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard E. Stearns ranks 4,557 out of 20,380. Before him are Frederick Lorz (1884), Pamela Tiffin (1942), Andrew Robinson (1942), Nicole Scherzinger (1978), Nick Cassavetes (1959), and William Livingston (1723). After him are Gene Wolfe (1931), Pete Maravich (1947), Bobby Vinton (1935), Ben Adams (1890), Michael Chang (1972), and Dick Miller (1928).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Richard E. Stearns ranks 48. Before him are Martin Hellman (1945), Gary Kildall (1942), Leonard Adleman (1945), Evelyn Berezin (1925), Stephen Cook (1939), and Richard M. Karp (1935). After him are Radia Perlman (1951), Ruth Teitelbaum (1924), Gil Amelio (1943), Marlyn Meltzer (1922), Eugene Garfield (1925), and Larry Tesler (1945).

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