Juris Hartmanis

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ACM Distinguished Service Award

USA - 2013

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For their long-standing work as series editors of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) -- under their stewardship a most important venue for disseminating innovative research in the initial decades of the field of computer science.

Gerhard Goos, Juris Hartmanis, and Jan van Leeuwen are eminent researchers who by example and by leadership in various research organisations helped establish computer science as a vibrant subject. This award recognizes in particular their service and contribution to the computer science community through their high quality editorship of the Springer Lecture Notes Series in Computer Science. Goos and Hartmanis started editing this series in 1973 and were joined by van Leeuwen some years later. This congenial team soon established the series as a stable, reliable, and highly visible platform for disseminating research results and insights from all areas of the then nascent field of computer science. LNCS was a highly important and influential publication platform at a time when researchers often worked in isolation, came from diverse backgrounds, and had few genuine computer science venues to call upon. Through the LNCS series Goos, Hartmanis, and van Leeuwen provided a widely read, well visited forum that supported the exploration of new areas, enabled the dissemination of ideas, and served as an initial platform for many a young researcher. With untiring enthusiasm Goos, Hartmanis, and van Leeuwen showed exceptional taste and prescience in identifying and nurturing new fields and talent. When they passed on the baton as chief editors of the LNCS series in 2004, the volume count had reached the staggering number of 3000, yet the quality and high standards of the LNCS series during their stewardship has proven difficult to match. The long-term effect of their able and dedicated service on the development of computer science cannot be exaggerated.
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ACM Fellows

USA - 1994

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In recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory.

ACM A. M. Turing Award

USA - 1993

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With Richard E. Stearns, in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory.

The A.M. Turing Award is presented to Juris Hartmanis and Richard E. Stearns in recognition of their seminal joint research which established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory. In their paper On the Computational Complexity of Algorithms (Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 117, No. 5, May 1965, pp. 285-306) they provided a precise definition of the complexity measure defined by computation time on Turing machines and developed a theory of complexity classes. The paper sparked the imagination of many computer scientists and led to the establishment of complexity theory as a fundamental part of the discipline.

ACM Honors International Leaders Who Helped Advance Computer Science In The Digital Age

Gerhard Goos of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Juris Hartmanis of Cornell University, and Jan van Leeuwen of Utrecht University, recipients of the ACM Distinguished Service Award for their definitive role in establishing computer science as a vibrant subject. Their stewardship as series editors of the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), published since 1973, launched this series into a highly visible platform for disseminating research results from all areas of the nascent computing field. At a time when researchers often worked in isolation, they provided a widely read forum for exploring new areas, enabling dissemination of ideas, and offering initial exposure to young researchers.