Neil Immerman
Neil Immerman (born 24 November 1953, Manhasset, New York) is an American theoretical computer scientist, a professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.<ref name="um-dir">Faculty directory: Neil Immerman, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, retrieved 2010-01-23.</ref> He is one of the key developers of descriptive complexity, an approach he is currently applying to research in model checking, database theory, and computational complexity theory.
Professor Immerman is an editor of the SIAM Journal on Computing<ref>Editorial board, SIAM Journal on Computing, retrieved 2010-01-23.</ref> and of Logical Methods in Computer Science.<ref>Editorial board, Logical Methods in Computer Science, retrieved 2010-01-23.</ref> He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Yale University in 1974 and his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1980 under the supervision of Juris Hartmanis, a Turing Award winner at Cornell.<ref name="um-dir"/><ref>Template:Mathgenealogy.</ref> His book Descriptive Complexity appeared in 1999.<ref>Reviews of Descriptive Complexity:
Immerman is the winner, jointly with Róbert Szelepcsényi, of the 1995 Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science for proof of what is known as the Immerman–Szelepcsényi theorem, the result that nondeterministic space complexity classes are closed under complementation.<ref>1995 Gödel Prize, ACM SIGACT, retrieved 2010-01-23.</ref> Immerman is an ACM Fellow<ref>ACM Fellows Award / Neil Immerman, Association for Computing Machinery, retrieved 2010-01-23.</ref> and a Guggenheim Fellow.<ref>Neil Immerman Template:Webarchive, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, retrieved 2010-01-23.</ref>
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- Immerman's home page at U. Mass. Amherst