Friday, April 25, 2025

Turing Award: Jeffrey Ullman

Another great interview with very prominent "computing" person.
Not about compilers, mostly about AI

 Turing Award Special: A Conversation with Jeffrey Ullman - Software Engineering Daily

Jeffrey Ullman is a renowned computer scientist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, celebrated for his groundbreaking contributions to database systems, compilers, and algorithms. He co-authored influential texts like Principles of Database Systems and Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (often called the “Dragon Book”), which have shaped generations of computer science students.

Jeffrey received the 2020 Turing Award together with Alfred Aho “for fundamental algorithms and theory underlying programming language implementation and for synthesizing these results and those of others in their highly influential books, which educated generations of computer scientists.”


in 2000 he was awarded the Knuth Prize.[4] Ullman is the co-recipient (with John Hopcroft) of the 2010 IEEE John von Neumann Medal
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He was the Ph.D. advisor of Sergey Brin, one of the co-founders of Google, and served on Google's technical advisory board


Principles of Compiler Design, by Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman, is a classic textbook on compilers for computer programming languages. Both of the authors won the 2020 Turing Award for their work on compilers.



Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools[1] is a computer science textbook by Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman about compiler construction for programming languages. First published in 1986, it is widely regarded as the classic definitive compiler technology text

The first edition (1986) is informally called the "red dragon book" to distinguish it from the second edition[5] and from Aho & Ullman's 1977 Principles of Compiler Design sometimes known as the "green dragon book"


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