[HN Gopher] Juris Hartmanis 1928-2022 ___________________________________________________________________ Juris Hartmanis 1928-2022 Author : sizzle Score : 97 points Date : 2022-08-01 17:25 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (rjlipton.wpcomstaging.com) (TXT) w3m dump (rjlipton.wpcomstaging.com) | 082349872349872 wrote: | Also cowrote "Algebraic structure theory of sequential machines" | (1966) which --if, along with its successor Krohn-Rhodes theory | seems to be largely impractical-- is an interesting path-not- | taken in CS... | Lapsa wrote: | name, surname sounds unmistakably Latvian. Turing award... and I | didn't even know... rest in peace | b3kart wrote: | Very mild, but also unmistakably Latvian accent. Was also | surprised to learn about Juris. RIP indeed. | sireat wrote: | Juris Hartmanis was Turing award winner laying out foundations | for complexity theory. His life in his own words: | https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/4/184690-an-interview-wi... | | "I also discovered, during my education and early research | experience, that you do not have to know that much to do | research. With a good background education, one can very quickly | absorb the necessary specialized knowledge for a specific | research area. I think what Caltech really taught me was to be | independent, and to try to go to the essence of a problem." | | In some ways a typical(and tragically sad) beginning for | Latvian(and other Baltic) refugees at the end of WW2 but quite | extraordinary achievements later on. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-01 23:00 UTC)