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For Immediate Release
Contact: Stephanie Specchio
Hopcroft Earns Prestigious IEEE Harry M. Goode award John Hopcroft has been awarded the IEEE Harry M. Goode award in recognition of his fundamental contributions
to the study of algorithms and their applications in information processing. He will accept the award at a
ceremony in Philadelphia on November 3, 2005, at which time he will be presented with a bronze medal and $2,000.
Hopcroft is the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science and an A. M. Turing Award
winner.
With this award, John joins a distinguished and elite circle of scientists, said Charlie Van Loan, computer
science professor and chair of Cornells department of computer science. His algorithmic insights over the last
40 years have had a profound impact throughout engineering and science.
Presented annually since 1964, the IEEE Harry M. Goode award recognizes its members for outstanding accomplishments
in the information processing field that are considered either a single contribution of theory, design, or technique
of outstanding significance or the accumulation of important contributions on theory or practice over an extended
time period, the total of which represent an outstanding contribution. The Computer Society sponsors an active and
prestigious awards program, which honor technical achievements and service to the computer profession and to the
society.
Hopcrofts research centers on theoretical aspects of computing, especially analysis of algorithms, automata theory,
and graph algorithms. He has coauthored four books on formal languages and algorithms, and his most recent work is
on the study of information capture and access.
Biography Hopcroft was honored with the A. M. Turing Award in 1986. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and
a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Association of Computing Machinery. In 1992, he was
appointed by President Bush to the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation, and
served through May 1998. From 1995-98, Hopcroft served on the National Research Council's Commission on Physical
Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications.
In addition to these appointments, Hopcroft serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the David
and Lucile Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering and the Nominating Committee for the National Academy of
Engineering. He chairs the International Advisory Committee on Informatics and Engineering at the National College
of Industrial Relations in Ireland, and is Co-Chair of the NRC Committee on Network Science for Future Army
Applications.
After receiving both his M.S. (1962) and Ph.D. (1964) in electrical engineering from Stanford University,
Hopcroft spent three years on the faculty of Princeton University. He joined the Cornell faculty in 1967, was
named professor in 1972 and the Joseph C. Ford Professor of Computer Science in 1985. He served as chairman of
the Department of Computer Science from 1987 to 1992, was the associate dean for college affairs in 1993, and the
Joseph Silbert dean of Engineering from 1994 to 2001. An undergraduate alumnus of Seattle University, Hopcroft
was honored with a Doctor of Humanities Degree, Honoris Causa, in 1990. Stephanie Specchio
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