Alfred Aho

Details

Instance of

human

Born

9 August 1941

Place of birth

Timmins

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Alfred, Vaino

Family name

Aho

Field of work

computer science

Occupation

computer scientist, engineer, programmer

Citizenship

Canada

Awards

IEEE John von Neumann Medal, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Turing Award, C&C Prize, Great Teacher Award

birth name

Alfred Vaino Aho

doctoral advisor

John Edward Hopcroft

doctoral student

Krysta Svore, Marcio O. Buss, Gaurav Singh Kc, Marc Eaddy

educated at

University of Toronto, Princeton University

employer

Columbia University

languages spoken, written or signed

English

member of

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Association for Computing Machinery

name in native language

Alfred Aho

notable work

Principles of Compiler Design, AWK

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