About
A Latvian computer scientist and computational theorist who received the 1993 ACM Turing Award. He developed many principles of computational complexity theory while working at the General Electric Research Laboratory.
Before Fame
He studied at the University of Marburg and at the University of Kansas City.
Trivia
He received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from The University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Family Life
He was a son of Mārtiņš Hartmanis, a general in the Latvian army.
Associated With
He received the ACM Turing Award, which is named after Alan Turing.