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Stephen Arthur Cook

American computer scientist
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Dec. 14, 1939, Buffalo, N.Y., U.S. (age 85)
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Turing Award (1982)
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NP-complete problem
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Stephen Arthur Cook (born Dec. 14, 1939, Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.) is an American computer scientist and winner of the 1982 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for his “advancement of our understanding of the complexity of computation in a significant and profound way.” Cook earned a bachelor’s degree (1961) in computer science from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree (1962) and doctorate (1966) in computer science from Harvard University. After leaving Harvard, Cook joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1970 Cook moved to the University of Toronto, where in 1985 he ...(100 of 168 words)

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