Albert R. Meyer
| Albert Ronald da Silva Meyer | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1941 (age 73–74) |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | MIT |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Patrick C. Fischer |
| Doctoral students | Nancy Lynch, Leonid Levin, Jeanne Ferrante, Charles Rackoff, Larry Stockmeyer, David Harel, Joseph Halpern, John C. Mitchell |
| Notable awards | ACM Fellow (2000) |
| Spouse | Irene Greif |
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Website people | |
Albert Ronald da Silva Meyer (born 1941) is a professor of computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Biography
Meyer received his PhD from Harvard University in 1972 in applied mathematics, under the supervision of Patrick C. Fischer.[1] He has been at MIT since 1969.
Academic life
Meyer's seminal works include Meyer & Stockmeyer (1972) 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, Larry Stockmeyer, David Harel, Joseph Halpern, and John C. Mitchell.
Awards
He has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) since 1987,[2] and he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2000.[3] He is the editor-in-chief of the international computer science journal Information and Computation.[4]
Publications
- 1991. Research Directions in Computer Science: An MIT Perspective. (Ed. with John Guttag, Ronald Rivest, and Peter Szolovits) MIT Press.
- Meyer, Albert R.; Stockmeyer, Larry J. (1972). "The equivalence problem for regular expressions with squaring requires exponential space". Proc. 13th Annual Symposium on Switching and Automata Theory. pp. 125–129. doi:10.1109/SWAT.1972.29..
Personal life
He is married to the computer scientist, Irene Greif.[5]
Notes
- ↑ Albert Ronald da Silva Meyer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ↑ "M" (PDF). Members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 1780–2005.
- ↑ "ACM Fellows". "ACM: Fellows Award / Albert R Meyer". "For fundamental advances in complexity theory and semantics of programming, and for outstanding service and education of graduate students."
- ↑ Information and Computation
- ↑ McCluskey, Eileen (20 October 2008). "Irene Greif '69, SM '72, PhD '75 Knitting together computers and people". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 19 April 2014.