Alfred Aho

Alfred Aho
Alfred Aho
Born	Alfred Vaino Aho; August 9, 1941 (age 83); Timmins, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian; American
Alma mater	University of Toronto; Princeton University;
Known for	Awk programming language; Principles of Compiler Design; Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools; Aho-Corasick algorithm;
Awards	Bell Labs Fellow (1984); FAAAS (1986); IEEE Fellow (1988); FACM (1996); IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2003); NAE Member; Turing Award (2020);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Columbia University
Thesis	Indexed Grammars: An Extension of Context Free Grammars (1968)
Doctoral advisor	John Hopcroft

Alfred Vaino Aho (born August 9, 1941) is a Canadian computer scientist. He is best known for his work on programming languages, compilers, and related algorithms. He has written many textbooks on the art and science of computer programming.^[2]^[3]^[4] He and his long-time partner Jeffrey Ullman are the recipients of the 2020 Turing Award.

References

↑ Alfred Vaino Aho at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
↑ Aho, A.; Gottlob, G. (2014). "A front row seat to Communications' editorial transformation". Communications of the ACM. 57 (4): 5. doi:10.1145/2582611. S2CID 21553189.
↑ Aho, A.V. (1990). "Algorithms for Finding Patterns in Strings". Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science. MIT Press. pp. 255–300.
↑ Computerworld Interview with Alfred V. Aho Archived May 29, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

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[mathgene-1] Alfred Vaino Aho at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

[2] Aho, A.; Gottlob, G. (2014). "A front row seat to Communications' editorial transformation". Communications of the ACM. 57 (4): 5. doi:10.1145/2582611. S2CID 21553189.

[3] Aho, A.V. (1990). "Algorithms for Finding Patterns in Strings". Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science. MIT Press. pp. 255–300.

[4] Computerworld Interview with Alfred V. Aho Archived May 29, 2008, at the Wayback Machine

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