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Clifford Seth Stein (born December 14, 1965 ) is an American computer scientist.

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Stein studied electrical engineering at Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in 1987 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a master's degree in 1989 and a doctorate with David Shmoys in 1992 (Approximation algorithms for multicommodity flow and shop scheduling problems). He was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Dartmouth College for nine years before becoming Professor of Industrial Organization and Operations Research (IEOR) and Computer Science at Columbia University .

Stein deals with the design and analysis of algorithms, combinatorial optimization, operations research , network algorithms , scheduling and computer modeling in biology.

He is known as the co-author of a standard work on algorithms with Ron Rivest , Charles Leiserson , Thomas H. Cormen .

He was a Sloan Research Fellow and received the NSF Career Award. In 2010 he received an honorary doctorate in Oslo.

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  • Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald Rivest, Clifford Stein: Algorithmen - An Introduction , Oldenbourg, 2010. ISBN 978-3-486-59002-9
    • Original edition: Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd edition, MIT Press 2009
  • with Ken Bogart, Scott Drysdale: Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science, Addison-Wesley 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Clifford Stein in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used