John Hopcroft

John Edward Hopcroft
Hopcroft in 2006 at ITMO University
Born	(1939-10-07) October 7, 1939 (age 85) Seattle, Washington, United States
Alma mater	Seattle University (BS) Stanford University (MS, PhD)
Awards	Turing Award (1986) Member of the National Academy of Sciences Member of the National Academy of Engineering Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Stanford University Princeton University Cornell University
Thesis	Synthesis of Threshold Logic Networks (1964)
Doctoral advisor	Richard Mattson
Doctoral students	Alfred Aho Chandrajit Bajaj Gilles Brassard Richard J. Cole Cynthia Dwork Zvi Galil Daniela L. Rus
Website	cs.cornell.edu/jeh

John Edward Hopcroft (born October 7, 1939) is an American theoretical computer scientist. His textbooks on theory of computation (also known as the Cinderella book) and data structures are regarded as standards in their fields. He is a professor emeritus at Cornell University,^[1][2] co-director of the Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies at Peking University,^[3] and the director of the John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.^[4]