Albert R. Meyer
| Albert Ronald da Silva Meyer | |
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| Born | 1941 (age 75–76) |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | MIT |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Patrick C. Fischer |
| Doctoral students | Nancy Lynch, Leonid Levin, Jeanne Ferrante, Charles Rackoff, , David Harel, Joseph Halpern, John C. Mitchell |
| Notable awards | ACM Fellow (2000) |
| Spouse | Irene Greif |
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Albert Ronald da Silva Meyer (born 1941) is a professor of computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Meyer received his PhD from Harvard University in 1972 in applied mathematics, under the supervision of Patrick C. Fischer. He has been at MIT since 1969.
Meyer's seminal works include which introduced the polynomial hierarchy. He has supervised numerous PhD students who are now famous computer scientists; these include Nancy Lynch, Leonid Levin, Jeanne Ferrante, Charles Rackoff, , David Harel, Joseph Halpern, and John C. Mitchell.
He has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) since 1987, and he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2000. He is the editor-in-chief of the international computer science journal Information and Computation.
He is married to the computer scientist, Irene Greif.
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