Jeffrey Ullman

Jeffrey Ullman
Born (1942-11-22) November 22, 1942 (age 81)
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materColumbia University (BS)
Princeton University (PhD)
Known fordatabase theory, database systems, formal language theory
AwardsACM Fellow (1994)
Knuth Prize (2000)
IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2010)
Turing Award (2020)
Scientific career
InstitutionsStanford University
Thesis Synchronization Error Correcting Codes[1]  (1966)
Doctoral advisorArthur Bernstein, Archie McKellar
Doctoral students

Jeffrey David Ullman (born November 22, 1942)[2] is an American computer scientist and the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University. His textbooks on compilers (various editions are popularly known as the dragon book), theory of computation (also known as the Cinderella book), data structures, and databases are regarded as standards in their fields. He and his long-time collaborator Alfred Aho are the recipients of the 2020 Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science.[3]

  1. ^ Jeffrey Ullman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Ullman, Jeffrey D. "Vita". Stanford University. Retrieved April 2, 2021.
  3. ^ ACM Turing Award Honors Innovators Who Shaped the Foundations of Programming Language Compilers and Algorithms. Retrieved March 31, 2021.