Thomas H. Cormen is the co-author of ''

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'', along with Charles Leiserson,

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, and

Cliff Stein Clifford Seth Stein (born December 14, 1965), a computer scientist, is a professor of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University in New York, NY, where he also holds an appointment in the Department of Computer Scien ...

. In 2013, he published a new book titled '' Algorithms Unlocked''. He is a professor of

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and former Chairman 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, and speeding up computations with high latency. In 2022, he was elected as a Democratic member of the

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Early life and education

Thomas H. Cormen was born in

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in 1956. He grew up in

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. He received his

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in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from

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in June 1978. He then went to the

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, 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

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with a thesis on "Virtual Memory for Data-Parallel Computing" in February 1993. From July 2004 through June 2008, he was the director of th
Dartmouth Institute for Writing and Rhetoric

Honors and awards

During his career he received several honors and awards: * Elected to Phi Beta Kappa,

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, 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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External links

Home page of Thomas H. Cormen
Living people American computer scientists Dartmouth College faculty Computer science educators 1956 births MIT School of Engineering alumni People from Oceanside, New York Scientists from New York (state) Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni American textbook writers {{US-compu-bio-stub