Jeffrey D. Ullman (born November 22, 1942) is a renowned computer scientist.

He received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1963 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1966. He then worked for several years at Bell Labs. From 1969 to 1979 he was a professor at Princeton. Since 1979 he has been a professor at Stanford University, where he is currently the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science (Emeritus).

His textbooks on compilers (various editions are popularly known as the Dragon Book), data structures, theory of computation, and databases are regarded as standards in their fields.

His research interests include database theory, database integration, data mining, and education using the information infrastructure.

He was the Ph.D. advisor of Sergey Brin, one of the co-founders of Google, and served on that company's technical advisory board.

He is currently the CEO of Gradiance.

Bibliography

• Database Systems: The Complete Book (with H. Garcia-Molina and J. Widom), Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2002.

• Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation, (with J. E. Hopcroft and R. Motwani), Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 1969, 1979, 2000.

• Elements of ML Programming, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993, 1998.

• A First Course in Database Systems (with J. Widom), Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1997, 2002.

• Foundations of Computer Science (with A. V. Aho), Computer Science Press, New York, 1992.C edition, 1994.

• Principles of Database and Knowledge-Base Systems (two volumes), Computer Science Press, New York, 1988, 1989.

• Principles, Techniques, and Tools (with A. V. Aho and R. Sethi), Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 1977, 1986.

• Data Structures and Algorithms (with A. V. Aho and J. E. Hopcroft), Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 1983.

• The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms (with A. V. Aho and J. E. Hopcroft), Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 1974.

External link

• Jeffrey Ullman's website

1942 births | Living people | Computer scientists | Fellows of the ACM | Erdős number 2 | Scientists at Bell Labs | Knuth Prize laureates

Jeffrey Ullman