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Also Known As Richard Edwin Stearns
Born July 5, 1936 (age 88) • Caldwell • New Jersey
Awards And Honors Turing Award (1993)
Subjects Of Study game theory • analysis of algorithms • finite transducer • automata theory • computational complexity
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