Jeff Ullman is the Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Engineering (Emeritus) in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford and CEO of Gradiance Corp., a startup trying to produce low-cost, high-quality tools for secondary and college education.

He received the B.S. degree from Columbia University in 1963 and the PhD from Princeton in 1966. Prior to his appointment at Stanford in 1979, he was a member of the technical staff of Bell Laboratories from 1966-1969, and on the faculty of Princeton University between 1969 and 1979. From 1990-1994, he was chair of the Stanford Computer Science Department. He has served as chair of the CS-GRE Examination board, Member of the ACM Council, Chair of the New York State CS Doctoral Evaluation Board, on several NSF advisory boards, and is past or present editor of several journals.

Ullman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 and has held Guggenheim and Einstein Fellowships. He won both the SIGMOD Contributions and Codd Innovations awards, is the 1998 winner of the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and the 2000 winner of the Knuth Prize. He is the author of 16 books, including widely read books on database systems, compilers, automata theory, and algorithms.

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