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Stephen Cook

Also Known As Stephen Arthur Cook · Stephen A. Cook · S. A. Cook
Theory of Computation

Stephen Arthur Cook is an American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made significant contributions to complexity theory and proof complexity. He is a university professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Year
1939 1
Birth Date
1939-12-14 2
Award
Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering 1
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Officer of the Order of Canada 1
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Gödel Lecturer 1
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Fellow of the Royal Society 1
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Turing Award 1
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ACM Fellow 1
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John L. Synge Award 1
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Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 1
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CRM-Fields-PIMS prize 1
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BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 1
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Order of Ontario 1
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Invented

Stephen Cook improved Andrei Toom's fast multiplication algorithm in his 1966 doctoral thesis at Harvard.

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1. Wikidata: Stephen Cook
  • Wikidata Q62870, resolved via en.wikipedia pageprops (wave rule R-L)
  • Wikidata Q62870 P569 (date of birth)
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2. Wikipedia: Stephen Cook
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    Stephen Arthur Cook is an American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician who has made significant contributions to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity.
  • Infobox, Born
    December 14, 1939
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