Ronald V. Book

Ronald V. Book

Ronald Vernon Book (April 1937 – May 28, 1997 in Santa Barbara, California) worked in theoretical computer science. He published more than 150 papers in scientific journals. He gave many talks at the following conferences:

  • STOC (Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing)
  • FOCS (Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science)
  • ICALP (International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming sponsored by the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science)
  • MFCS (International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science)

His papers are of great impact for computational complexity theory and term rewriting.

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