Larry Joseph Stockmeyer was an American computer scientist
Education
1972: Bachelor of Science in mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1972: Master of Science in electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1974: Doctor of Philosophy in computer science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
He was one of the pioneers in the field of computational complexity theory, and he also worked in the field of distributed computing. He died of pancreatic cancer. Supervisor: Albert R. Meyer.
1974–1982: International Business Machines Corporation Research, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New New York 1982–November 2003: International Business Machines Corporation Research, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California. October 2002–2004: University of California, Santa Cruz, Computer Science Department – Research Associate.
1996: Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery: "Foreign several fundamental contributions to computational complexity theory, which have significantly affected the course of this field".