s=david" target="_blank">David Stifler Johnson (December 9, 1945 – March 8, 2016) was an American computer scientist specializing in algorithms and optimization. He was the head of the Algorithms and Optimization Department of AT&T Labs Research from 1988 to 2013, and was a visiting professor at Columbia University from 2014 to 2016. He was awarded the 2010 Knuth Prize.
Johnson was born in 1945 in Washington, D.C. He graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College in 1967, then earned his S.M. from MIT in 1968 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1973. All three of his degrees are in mathematics. He was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1995, and as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2016.
He was the coauthor of Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness (ISBN 0-7167-1045-5) along with Michael Garey. As of March 9, 2016, his publications have been cited over 96,000 times, and he has an h-index of 78. Johnson died on March 8, 2016, at the age of 70.
David Stifler Johnson (December 9, 1945 – March 8, 2016) was an American computer scientist specializing in algorithms and optimization. He was the head of the Algorithms and …
David S. Johnson, a leading expert in the area of computational complexity and the design and analysis of algorithms, died Tuesday. Since 2014, Johnson was a visiting professor at …
David Stifler Johnson (December 9, 1945 – March 8, 2016) was an American computer scientist. He was known for his works in algorithms and optimization. He was the head of the Algorithms …
David S. Johnson. Visiting Professor, Columbia University Computer Science Department ... DS Johnson, A Demers, JD Ullman, MR Garey, RL Graham. SIAM Journal on ...
11 Mar 2016 · David S. Johnson, an American computer scientist specializing in algorithms and optimization who received the 2010 Donald E. Knuth Prize for his contributions to theoretical …
David Stifler Johnson (December 9, 1945 – March 8, 2016) was an American computer scientist specializing in algorithms and optimization. He was the head of the Algorithms and …
David S. Johnson (1945-2016) was instrumental in the development and evolution of DIMACS as an NSF Science and Technology Center from its earliest days. David established the DIMACS …
DAVID STIFLER JOHNSON, the gentle pioneer, curator, and master expositor of hard computational problems and for decades the spirit, voice, and memory of the field of …
David’s extensive and important contributions to research in algorithm design and analysis, and to the theory of NP-Completeness, are well known and widely celebrated. Here he is especially …
18 Apr 2014 · David is survived by his wife of 67 years, Shirley; son, Kipp (Teresa, dec. 2012) Johnson; daughter, Martha (Manuel) Karlin; 10 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. …
