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Richard E. Stearns

American computer scientist

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born
1936
died
2026
age at death
90
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computer scientist, engineer, university teacher

1936 – 2026

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Richard Edwin Stearns was an American computer scientist who, with Juris Hartmanis, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory". In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

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