Ken Iverson was denied tenure at Harvard in 1959, went to IBM Research, and won the Turing award in 1979. http://keiapl.info/anec/#one_little_book
Edsger Dijkstra was denied tenure at Amsterdam in 1970, went to UT Austin, and won the Turing award in 1972. http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/pdf.phtml?id=317 page 12 Stephen Cook was denied tenure at UC Berkeley in 1970, went to the University of Toronto, and won the Turing award in 1983. http://www.cbi.umn.edu/oh/pdf.phtml?id=317 page 12 ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, July 11, 2008 10:41 Subject: [Jchat] Tenure To: Chat Forum <[email protected]> > Name 3 Turing Award winners who were denied tenure at their > universities. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
