James H Morris

ACM Fellows

USA - 2000

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James H. Morris is responsible for several seminally important ideas in computer science. He was one of the first to use Lambda Calculus to model programming languages, he was one of the developers of 'Lazy Evaluation', and he was co-discoverer of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt string search algorithm. Morris was Principal Scientist and Research Fellow at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center from 1974 until 1982. In 1982 he moved to Carnegie Mellon where he has held a number of positions including Developer of the Campus-wide Network (The Andrew System) and Chairman of the Computer Science Department.