ALFRED V. AHO

Alfred V. Aho is Lawrence Gussman Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
at Columbia University.

Room 513 Computer Science Building,

Courses

CS 3261: Computer Science Theory - Section 001, Fall 2017

CS 6998: Advanced Topics in Programming Languages and Compilers, Fall 2014

CS 4115: Programming Languages and Translators, Spring 2015

Books

Bio

Recent PhD Students

Gaurav Kc: Defending Software Against Process-Subversion Attacks

Krysta Svore: Achieving Reliable, Scalable, Fault-tolerant Quantum Computing

Marc Eaddy: An Empirical Assessment of the Crosscutting Concern Problem

Stuart Hadfield: Quantum Algorithms for Scientific Computing and Approximate Optimization

Research Interests

Programming languages, compilers, algorithms, software engineering, quantum computing

Publications and Citations on Google Scholar

Recent Invited Talks

Teaching Compilers, SIGCSE 2010

The Quintessential Questions of Computer Science, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, June 22, 2011

C, the Enduring Legacy of Dennis Ritchie, Dennis Ritchie Tribute at Bell Labs, September 7, 2012,   Text of talk.

Computational Thinking, NEC, 2013

Programming Languages and Compilers for Quantum Computers, June 16, 2014

Bell Labs Role in Programming Languages and Algorithms, Simons Foundation, June 5, 2015

Software, Computation and Models of Computation, IIT Madras, January 8, 2016

Regular Expressions, JerseySTEM Math Club, March 5, 2017

From Algorithms to Software, NEC Foundation, November 30, 2017

Recent Patents

Gaurav S. Kc and Alfred V. Aho, Detecting and Preventing Malcode Execution, #7,971,255, June 28, 2011

Languages and Compilers Research Group

Columbia University Department of Computer Science

Department of Computer Science

Columbia University

513 Computer Science Building

Mail Code 0401

1214 Amsterdam Avenue

New York, NY 10027

212 939-7067

Fax: 212 666-0140

aho@@cs.columbia.edu