Albert R. Meyer

Albert Ronald da Silva Meyer, born in 1941, is Hitachi America Professor emeritus of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He took his doctorate at Harvard University in 1972 in applied mathematics under the supervision of Patrick C. Fischer, joined the MIT electrical engineering and computer science faculty in 1969, became the Hitachi America Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in 1991 and retired in 2016. His best known paper, written with Larry Stockmeyer in 1972, introduced the polynomial hierarchy. He supervised many doctoral students who became prominent computer scientists, among them Nancy Lynch, Leonid Levin, David Harel and Joseph Halpern, and edited the journal Information and Computation from 1981 until 2020. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Association for Computing Machinery.