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Richard E. Stearns

Richard E. Stearns
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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".

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  1. Alan J. HeegerJanuary 22, 1936 – present
  2. Barry C. BarishJanuary 27, 1936 – present
  3. Hideki ShirakawaAugust 20, 1936 – August 24, 2026
  4. Margaret Hamilton (software engineer)August 17, 1936 – September 30, 2026
  5. Richard E. Stearns (this page)July 5, 1936 – August 29, 2026
  6. Robert WilsonJanuary 10, 1936 – present

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