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Tarjan received the Turing Award jointly with John Hopcroft in 1986. The citation for the award states that it was :

:For fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures.

Tarjan was also elected an ACM Fellow in 1994. The citation for this award {Link without Title} states:

:For seminal advances in the design and analysis of data structures and algorithms.

Tarjan obtained a Bachelor's Degree in mathematics from the California Institute Of Technology in 1969 . At Stanford University , he received his Master's Degree in computer science in 1971 and a Ph.D. in computer science (with a minor in mathematics) in 1972 . At Stanford, he was supervised by Robert Floyd and Donald Knuth , both highly prominent computer scientists.

Tarjan is currently a professor of Computer Science at Princeton University , and also works for Hewlett-Packard .


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