In the history of technology, Juris Hartmanis is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Juris Hartmanis as Latvian computer scientist (1928–2022).
Juris Hartmanis was born at Riga in 1928. His recorded nationality is Latvia. He was educated at California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
He worked as mathematician, computer scientist and university teacher.
His affiliations include Cornell University, General Electric and Ohio State University.
Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
His recorded fields of work are informatics, computer science and time hierarchy theorem.
Recognition followed: Turing Award (1993).
That the work was done from Latvia matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Juris Hartmanis died in 2022, aged 94. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Turing Award — 1993
- Affiliated with Cornell University, General Electric and Ohio State University
- Educated at California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Marburg
- Worked as mathematician, computer scientist and university teacher
