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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 64,868 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Richard E. Stearns is the 127th most popular computer scientist (down from 108th in 2019), the 7,340th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,764th in 2019) and the 75th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Richard E. Stearns ranks 127 out of 201. Before him are Liu Gang, Arthur Samuel, Kathleen Antonelli, Michael Dertouzos, Phil Zimmermann, and Shafi Goldwasser. After him are Andy Rubin, Gary McKinnon, Anita Borg, Bill Joy, Charles P. Thacker, and Randy Pausch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Richard E. Stearns ranks 392. Before him are Ádám Bodor, Jean-Claude Turcotte, Eduard Gufeld, Tomáš Pospíchal, Salvador Reyes Monteón, and David Hess. After him are Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Lazarus Salii, Juan Seminario, Nahum Stelmach, and Barbara Sobotta.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard E. Stearns ranks 7,340 out of 18,182. Before him are Emerson Spencer (1906), Margaret Avery (1944), Colin Hanks (1977), Kathryn Hahn (1974), Otto Kruger (1885), and Paul Heyman (1965). After him are Patricia Heaton (1958), Gary Merrill (1915), Gregory Walcott (1928), Jeffrey Combs (1954), Kathryn Grayson (1922), and Nicky Jam (1981).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Richard E. Stearns ranks 75. Before him are Adele Goldberg (1945), John L. Hennessy (1952), Annie Easley (1933), Arthur Samuel (1901), Phil Zimmermann (1954), and Shafi Goldwasser (1958). After him are Andy Rubin (1963), Anita Borg (1949), Bill Joy (1954), Charles P. Thacker (1943), Randy Pausch (1960), and Jaron Lanier (1960).

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