caption doctoral_advisor birth_place awards workplaces birth_date doctoral_students image article_title name alma_mater
richard stearns in 2009 harold w. kuhn caldwell , new jersey acm prize -lrb- 1995 -rrb- turing award -lrb- 1993 -rrb- frederick w. lanchester university at albany 5 july 1936 madhav iii -rrb- thomas c. o'connell v. marathe -lrb- jointly with harry b. hunt dick stearns.jpg richard e. stearns
 richard edwin stearns princeton university
richard e. stearns

richard edwin stearns -lrb- born july 5 , 1936 -rrb- is a prominent 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 '' -lrb- hartmanis and stearns , 1965 -rrb- .
in 1994 he was inducted as a fellow of the association for computing machinery .
stearns earned his phd from princeton university in 1961 .
his phd thesis adviser was harold w. kuhn .
stearns is now distinguished professor emeritus of computer science at the university at albany , which is part of the state university of new york .
