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John Edward Hopcroft

Native name: John Hopcroft

Also known as: John E. Hopcroft, John Hopcroft

Place of birth:

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Birth date:

1939-10-07 • Birth Sign: Libra

Citizenship:

United States

Short Bio:

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, co-director of the Center on Frontiers of Computing Studies at Peking University, the director of the John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Hopcroft Center on Computer Science at Huazhong University

of Science and Technology. He and Robert Tarjan won the 1986 ACM Turing Award.

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