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Nationality
  
American

Institutions
  
Dartmouth College

Fields
  
Computer Science

Name
  
Thomas Cormen

Role
  
Author


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Alma mater
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Princeton University

Books
  
Introduction to Algorithms, Algorithms Unlocked, INTRODUCTION TO ALGORITHMS 2/E

Education
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University

Similar People
  
Charles E Leiserson, Ronald Rivest, Clifford Stein, Tetsuo Asano, George III of the United Ki

Residence
  
United States of America

Doctoral advisor
  
Charles E. Leiserson

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Thomas H. Cormen is the co-author of Introduction to Algorithms, along with Charles Leiserson, Ron Rivest, and Cliff Stein. In 2013, he published a new book titled Algorithms Unlocked. He is a professor of computer science at Dartmouth College and former Chair of the Dartmouth College Department of Computer Science. Between 2004 and 2008 he directed the Dartmouth College Writing Program. His research interests are algorithm engineering, parallel computing, speeding up computations with high latency.

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Early life and education

Thomas H. Cormen was born in New York City in 1956. He grew up in Oceanside, New York.

He received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in June 1978.

He then went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned his master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in May 1986 with a thesis on "Concentrator Switches for Routing Messages in Parallel Computers" and his PhD with a thesis on "Virtual Memory for Data-Parallel Computing" in February 1993.

From July 2004 through June 2008, He was the director of the Dartmouth Institute for Writing and Rhetoric.

Honors and awards

During his career he received several honors and awards:

  • Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu.
  • National Science Foundation Fellowship.
  • Best Presentation Award, 1986 International Conference on Parallel Processing, St. Charles, Illinois.
  • Distinguished Presentation Award, 1987 International Conference on Parallel Processing, St. Charles, Illinois.
  • Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award in Computer Science and Data Processing, Association of American Publishers, 1990.
  • Dartmouth College Class of 1962 Faculty Fellowship, 1995–1996.
  • Jacobus Family Fellow, Dartmouth College, 1998–1999.
  • McLane Family Fellow, Dartmouth College, 2004–2005.

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