The Forum of Turing Centers

John E. Hopcroft is the director of John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Computer Science at Cornell University. He was honored with the A. M. Turing Award in 1986. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS), the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is the dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University. He was honored with the A. M. Turing Award in 2000. He is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of US National Academy of Sciences.