Albert R. Meyer

Who is Albert R. Meyer?

Albert Ronald da Silva Meyer is a professor of computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1987, and he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2000. He is the editor-in-chief of the international computer science journal Information and Computation.

Meyer's seminal works include Meyer & Stockmeyer which introduced the polynomial hierarchy. He has supervised numerous PhD students who are now famous computer scientists; these include Nancy Lynch, Leonid Levin, Jeanne Ferrante, Charles Rackoff, Larry Stockmeyer, David Harel, Joseph Halpern, and John C. Mitchell.

Meyer received his PhD from Harvard University in 1972 in applied mathematics, under the supervision of Patrick C. Fischer. He has been at MIT since 1969. He is married to the computer scientist, Irene Greif.