10 Facts About Jeff Ullman

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Jeffrey David Ullman was born on November 22,1942 and is an American computer scientist and the Stanford W Ascherman Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University.

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Jeff Ullman moved to Stanford University in 1979, and served as the department chair from 1990 to 1994.

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Jeff Ullman was named the Stanford W Ascherman Professor of Computer Science in 1994, and became an Emeritus in 2003.

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In 1994 Jeff Ullman was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery; in 2000 he was awarded the Knuth Prize.

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Jeff Ullman is one of the founders of the field of database theory: many of his Ph.

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Jeff Ullman is a founder of Gradiance Corporation, which provides homework grading support for college courses.

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Jeff Ullman teaches courses on automata and mining massive datasets on the Stanford Online learning platform.

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Jeff Ullman was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.

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Jeff Ullman sits on the advisory board of TheOpenCode Foundation.

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In 2011, Jeff Ullman stated his opposition to assisting Iranians in becoming graduate students at Stanford, because of the anti-Israel position of the Iranian government.

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