Juris Hartmanis
| Juris Hartmanis | |
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| Born |
July 5, 1928 Riga, Latvia |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions |
General Electric Cornell University |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral students |
Allan Borodin Dexter Kozen Janos Simon |
| Notable awards | Turing Award (1993) |
Juris Hartmanis (born July 5, 1928) is a prominent computer scientist and computational theorist who, with Richard E. Stearns, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory".
Hartmanis was born in Latvia. He was a son of Mārtiņš Hartmanis, a general in the Latvian Army. After the Soviet Union occupied Latvia in 1940, Mārtiņš Hartmanis was arrested by Soviets and died in a prison. At the end of World War II, the wife and children of Mārtiņš Hartmanis left Latvia as refugees, fearing for their safety if the Soviet Union took over Latvia again.
They first moved to Germany, where Juris Hartmanis received the equivalent of a Master's degree in Physics from the University of Marburg. Then he moved to the United States, where he received Master's degree in Applied Mathematics at the University of Kansas City (now known as the University of Missouri-Kansas City) in 1951 and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Caltech under the supervision of Robert P. Dilworth in 1955. The University of Missouri-Kansas City honored him with Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in May 1999.
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