[HN Gopher] Juris Hartmanis 1928-2022
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       Juris Hartmanis 1928-2022
        
       Author : sizzle
       Score  : 97 points
       Date   : 2022-08-01 17:25 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | Also cowrote "Algebraic structure theory of sequential machines"
       | (1966) which --if, along with its successor Krohn-Rhodes theory
       | seems to be largely impractical-- is an interesting path-not-
       | taken in CS...
        
       | Lapsa wrote:
       | name, surname sounds unmistakably Latvian. Turing award... and I
       | didn't even know... rest in peace
        
         | b3kart wrote:
         | Very mild, but also unmistakably Latvian accent. Was also
         | surprised to learn about Juris. RIP indeed.
        
       | sireat wrote:
       | Juris Hartmanis was Turing award winner laying out foundations
       | for complexity theory. His life in his own words:
       | https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/4/184690-an-interview-wi...
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       | "I also discovered, during my education and early research
       | experience, that you do not have to know that much to do
       | research. With a good background education, one can very quickly
       | absorb the necessary specialized knowledge for a specific
       | research area. I think what Caltech really taught me was to be
       | independent, and to try to go to the essence of a problem."
       | 
       | In some ways a typical(and tragically sad) beginning for
       | Latvian(and other Baltic) refugees at the end of WW2 but quite
       | extraordinary achievements later on.
        
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