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Alfred V. Aho publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfred V. Aho sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 144 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Alfred V. Aho D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfred V. Aho sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 59 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2003 - IEEE John von Neumann Medal “For contributions to the foundations of computer science and to the fields of algorithms and software tools.”
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1999 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the fields of algorithms and programming tools.
  • 1996 - ACM Fellow For contributions to Interconnection Networks, High-Performance Computer Architecture, System Reliability, and Scheduling Techniques.
  • 1988 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to programming language translation, to data structures and algorithms, and to data systems.
  • 1986 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Alfred V. Aho is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science, including computational theory, mathematics, hardware architecture, and computer vision and pattern recognition.

The scientist's recent publication record includes the paper titled "Abstractions, their algorithms, and their compilers", published in 2022 in Communications of the ACM.

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Jeffrey D. Ullman

Their work has appeared predominantly in Communications of the ACM as a publication venue.

Alfred V. Aho's research is primarily categorized within the field of computer science, with specific subfields comprising:

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

The main research topics covered in their work include:

  • Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Graph Theory and Algorithms

Over the years, Alfred V. Aho has received multiple distinctions, such as being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2013 by the Academy of Science and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.

Their awards also include the IEEE John von Neumann Medal in 2003 for contributions to the foundations of computer science, particularly in algorithms and software tools, and membership in the National Academy of Engineering since 1999 for work in algorithms and programming tools.

Additional recognitions are:

  • ACM Fellow (1996), for work on interconnection networks, high-performance computer architecture, system reliability, and scheduling techniques
  • IEEE Fellow (1988), for contributions to programming language translation, data structures and algorithms, and data systems
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 1986

Best Publications

  • Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

    Alfred V. Aho;Ravi Sethi;Jeffrey D. Ullman

  • The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms

    Alfred V. Aho;John E. Hopcroft

  • Data Structures and Algorithms

    Alfred V. Aho;John E. Hopcroft;Jeffrey Ullman

  • Efficient string matching: an aid to bibliographic search

    Alfred V. Aho;Margaret J. Corasick

  • The Theory of Parsing, Translation, and Compiling

    Alfred V. Aho;Jeffrey D. Ullman

  • Principles of Compiler Design

    Alfred V. Aho;Jeffrey D. Ullman

  • The Transitive Reduction of a Directed Graph

    Alfred V. Aho;M. R. Garey;Jeffrey D. Ullman

  • The AWK Programming Language

    Alfred V. Aho;Brian W. Kernighan;Peter J. Weinberger

  • Universality of data retrieval languages

    Alfred V. Aho;Jeffrey D. Ullman

  • Indexed Grammars—An Extension of Context-Free Grammars

    Alfred V. Aho

  • Computation and Computational Thinking

    Alfred V. Aho

  • An optimization technique for protocol conformance test generation based on UIO sequences and rural Chinese postman tours

    A.V. Aho;A.T. Dahbura;D. Lee;M.U. Uyar

  • Principles of Compiler Design (Addison-Wesley series in computer science and information processing)

    Alfred V. Aho;Jeffrey D. Ullman

  • Algorithms for finding patterns in strings

    Alfred V. Aho

  • Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition)

    Alfred V. Aho;Monica S. Lam;Ravi Sethi;Jeffrey D. Ullman

  • Inferring a Tree from Lowest Common Ancestors with an Application to the Optimization of Relational Expressions

    Alfred V. Aho;Yehoshua Sagiv;Thomas G. Szymanski;Jeffrey D. Ullman

  • Equivalences among Relational Expressions

    Alfred V. Aho;Yehoshua Sagiv;Jeffrey D. Ullman

  • Principles of Optimal Page Replacement

    Alfred V. Aho;Peter J. Denning;Jeffrey D. Ullman

  • Optimal Code Generation for Expression Trees

    A. V. Aho;S. C. Johnson

  • Code generation using tree matching and dynamic programming

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  • The theory of joins in relational data bases

    A. V. Aho;A. Beeri;J. D. Ullman

  • Foundations of Computer Science

    Alfred V. Aho;Jeffrey D. Ullman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey D. Ullman
Jeffrey D. Ullman Stanford University
John E. Hopcroft
John E. Hopcroft Cornell University
Krysta M. Svore
Krysta M. Svore Microsoft (United States)
Brian W. Kernighan
Brian W. Kernighan Princeton University
Monica S. Lam
Monica S. Lam Stanford University
Yehoshua Sagiv
Yehoshua Sagiv Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mihalis Yannakakis
Mihalis Yannakakis Columbia University
Kathleen R. McKeown
Kathleen R. McKeown Columbia University
Catriel Beeri
Catriel Beeri Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Igor L. Markov
Igor L. Markov Synopsys (United States)

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