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Juris Hartmanis papers

 Collection
Identifier: 16-13-3786

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Includes publications by Hartmanis and others in the field of computer science, correspondence, and subject files.

Dates

  • 1965-2008.

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Emeritus professor of Computer Science, Cornell University.

Hartmanis was born in Latvia, received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Marburg in Germany, his Master's degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Kansas City in 1951, and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1955. After teaching at Cornell and Ohio State, he joined the General Electric Research Laboratory in 1958, where he developed principles of computational complexity theory. In 1965 he became a professor at Cornell and was on of the founders and first chairman of its computer science department. In 1993, he won the Turing Award along with Richard Stearns.

Extent

21 cubic feet. (21 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Includes publications by Hartmanis and others in the field of computer science, correspondence, and subject files.

SERIES LIST

Series I. Papers by Various Computer Scientists Boxes 1-7; Box 8- Folders: 1-59

Series II. Reprints - Hartmanis Box 9- Folders: 1-66

Series III. Course Material Box 9- Folders: 66-88; Box 10- Folders: 1-9

Series IV. Correspondence Box 10- Folders: 10-20, 27-37; Box 11- Folder: 10

Series V. Lecture and Subject Files Box 10- Folders: 38-44; Box 11- Folders: 7-9, 11-50

Series VI. Department of Computer Science Material Box 10- Folders: 21-26; Box 21

Series VII. National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant Material Box 10- Folders: 45-47; Box 11- Folders: 1-6, 43, 47; Box 18

Series VIII. Other Professional Material Boxes 11-20

Physical Description

Correspondence, Publications, Research Materials

General

Additional material and digital versions can be found online here: http://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/14935

Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by RMC Staff
Date
March 2010
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)