Robert Tarjan

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Robert Endre Tarjan

Born April 30, 1948 (1948-04-30) (age 59)
Pomona, California
Field Computer Science
Institutions Princeton University
Hewlett-Packard
Known for Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors algorithm
Notable prizes Turing Award

Robert Endre Tarjan (born April 30, 1948 in Pomona, California) is a renowned American computer scientist. He is the discoverer of several important graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees and Fibonacci heaps.

Tarjan received the Turing Award jointly with John Hopcroft in 1986. The citation for the award states that it was:

For fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures.

Tarjan was also elected an ACM Fellow in 1994. The citation for this award [1] states:

For seminal advances in the design and analysis of data structures and algorithms.

Tarjan obtained a Bachelor's degree in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1969. At Stanford University, he received his Master's degree in computer science in 1971 and a Ph.D. in computer science (with a minor in mathematics) in 1972. At Stanford, he was supervised by Robert Floyd and Donald Knuth, both highly prominent computer scientists.

Tarjan is currently the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, and also works for Hewlett-Packard.

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A. M. Turing Award Laureates

Perlis (1966) • Wilkes (1967) • Hamming (1968) • Minsky (1969) • Wilkinson (1970) • McCarthy (1971) • Dijkstra (1972) • Bachman (1973) • Knuth (1974) • Newell / Simon (1975) • Rabin / Scott (1976) • Backus (1977) • Floyd (1978) • Iverson (1979) • Hoare (1980) • Codd (1981) • Cook (1982) • Thompson / Ritchie (1983) • Wirth (1984) • Karp (1985) • Hopcroft / Tarjan (1986) • Cocke (1987) • Sutherland (1988) • Kahan (1989) • Corbató (1990) • Milner (1991) • Lampson (1992) • Hartmanis / Stearns (1993) • Feigenbaum / Reddy (1994) • Blum (1995) • Pnueli (1996) • Engelbart (1997) • Gray (1998) • Brooks (1999) • Yao (2000) • Dahl / Nygaard (2001) • Rivest / Shamir / Adleman (2002) • Kay (2003) • Cerf / Kahn (2004) • Naur (2005) • Allen (2006)


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NAME Tarjan, Robert Endre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Pomona, California
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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