Robert Tarjan

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Robert E. Tarjan, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science, joined Princeton in 1985. He received doctoral and master’s degrees in computer science from Stanford in 1972 and 1971, respectively, after earning a bachelor’s in mathematics from Caltech. His academic experience involved assistant professorships at Cornell and Stanford, and a Miller research fellowship at UC, Berkeley. Professor Tarjan’s extensive involvement in the private sector includes past and continuing fellowship, research and scientific roles at the NEC Research Institute, Princeton; InterTrust Technologies, Sunnyvale, CA; Compaq Computer, Houston, TX; Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, CA; and Microsoft, Mountain View, CA.