諾貝爾經(jīng)濟學獎和圖靈獎獲得者受聘我校名譽教授
發(fā)布日期：2008-11-13 閱讀次數(shù)：
供稿：國際交流合作處 攝影：新聞中心 斯君
2008年11月11日下午，北京理工大學名譽教授聘任儀式在主樓二層會議室舉行。
1996年諾貝爾經(jīng)濟學獎獲得者詹姆斯·莫里斯爵士（Sir James Mirrlees）(右) 和1986年圖靈獎獲得者約翰·E·霍普克洛夫特教授（John E. Hopcroft）被聘為北京理工大學名譽教授。
聘任儀式由楊樹興副校長主持。胡海巖校長向兩位教授頒發(fā)聘書，佩戴北京理工大學校徽。聘任儀式上，管理與經(jīng)濟學院院長李金林介紹了詹姆斯·莫里斯爵士的學術成就，計算機科學技術學院副院長牛振東介紹了約翰·E·霍普克洛夫特的學術成就。胡海巖校長代表北京理工大學歡迎詹姆斯·莫里斯爵士和約翰·E·霍普克洛夫特博士訪問我校，對他們成為我校名譽教授表示了真誠的祝賀，并與二位顧問教授就大學科研的發(fā)展、學生科研素質(zhì)的培養(yǎng)等進行了深入的交流。參加聘任儀式的還有國際交流合作處處長王慶林、副處長汪瀅，人事處副處長趙文祥和學院教師代表。
聘任儀式結(jié)束后，兩位名譽教授分別為我校師生做了兩場精彩的演講。
教授簡介
John Edward Hopcroft was born in 1939, is a renowned theoretical computer scientist.
He received his bachelor's degree from Seattle University in 1961 and his master's degree and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1962 and 1964, respectively. He worked for three years at Princeton University. Then he has been based at Cornell University, where he is currently the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science.
Prof. Hopcroft's research centers on theoretical aspects of computing, especially on analysis of algorithms, automata theory and graph algorithms. He has coauthored four books on formal languages and algorithms with Jeffrey D. Ullman and Alfred V. Aho. His most recent work is on the study of information capture and access.
In 1986, he received the A. M. Turing Award – the most prestigious award in the field – jointly with Robert Tarjan. He received the IEEE Harry Goode Memorial Award in 2005 and the Computing Research Association’s Distinguished Service Award in 2007.
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Association of Computing Machinery. In 1992, he was appointed by President Bush to the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation, and served through May 1998. From 1995-98, He served on the National Research Council's Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications.
In addition to these appointments, He serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the David and Lucile Packard Fellowships in Science and Engineering and the Nominating Committee for the National Academy of Engineering. He chairs the International Advisory Committee on Informatics and Engineering at the National College of Industrial Relations (NCIR) in Ireland, and is Co-Chair of the NRC Committee on Network Science for Future Army Applications.
Sir James Mirrlees was born in 1936, is a Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information. He was knighted in 1998.
He went to the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in mathematics in 1957. At Cambridge University he did Parts 2 and 3 of the Mathematical Tripos, and then a PhD in economics, finishing in 1963 with a thesis “Optimal Planning Under Uncertainty”, after a year in India on an MIT project assisting the Planning Commission.
From 1963 to 1968 he was a lecturer in Cambridge, a teaching fellow of Trinity College. He worked on the theory of planning, development economics, and public finance. He began the first book with Ian Little on methods of cost-benefit analysis for developing countries, and papers, with Peter Diamond, on the theory of optimal taxation. His best known paper, on optimal income taxation, was begun while on leave at MIT in 1968. It was published in 1971.
In 1968, he went to a Chair in mathematical economics at Oxford, and became a fellow of Nuffield College. He continued to work on development (with Little), taxation (often with Diamond), growth (with Stern, Dixit and Hammond), principal/agent problems, and welfare economics.
He became Professor of Political Economy in Cambridge in 1995, from which he retired in 2003, and remains a Fellow of Trinity College there. Since 2002, he has been Distinguished Professor-at-large of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also currently Distinguished Professor at the University of Macau, and Laureate Professor at Melbourne University. At various times he has been a visiting professor at MIT, Berkeley, and Yale. He is Master-designate of Morningside College, to be established in the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society (of which he was President in 1983) of the British Academy, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
