诺贝尔经济学奖和图灵奖获得者受聘我校名誉教授
发布日期：2008-11-13 阅读次数：
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2008年11月11日下午，北京理工大学名誉教授聘任仪式在主楼二层会议室举行。
1996年诺贝尔经济学奖获得者詹姆斯·莫里斯爵士（Sir James Mirrlees）(右) 和1986年图灵奖获得者约翰·E·霍普克洛夫特教授（John E. Hopcroft）被聘为北京理工大学名誉教授。
聘任仪式由杨树兴副校长主持。胡海岩校长向两位教授颁发聘书，佩戴北京理工大学校徽。聘任仪式上，管理与经济学院院长李金林介绍了詹姆斯·莫里斯爵士的学术成就，计算机科学技术学院副院长牛振东介绍了约翰·E·霍普克洛夫特的学术成就。胡海岩校长代表北京理工大学欢迎詹姆斯·莫里斯爵士和约翰·E·霍普克洛夫特博士访问我校，对他们成为我校名誉教授表示了真诚的祝贺，并与二位顾问教授就大学科研的发展、学生科研素质的培养等进行了深入的交流。参加聘任仪式的还有国际交流合作处处长王庆林、副处长汪滢，人事处副处长赵文祥和学院教师代表。
聘任仪式结束后，两位名誉教授分别为我校师生做了两场精彩的演讲。
教授简介
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.
