Albert Meyer papers

Albert R. Meyer, born 1941, is Hitachi America Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Meyer received an MS in 1965 and PhD in applied mathematics in 1972 from Harvard University. He taught at MIT in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) as an assistant professor from 1969 to 1972. He became associate professor, 1972-1975. He then taught as Cecil H. Green Professor, 1982-1983, and full professor, 1975-1991. Meyer was Hitachi America Professor of Computer Science and Engineering from 1991 until his retirement in 2016. While at MIT, Meyer served as associate director for the Laboratory for Computer Science, 1978-1981. He also served as a member of the MIT Press Editorial Board from 1987 to 2000. He was a member of the MIT Press Computer Science Editorial Board from 1976-1987 and 1992-1999. (1) He served as EECS Undergraduate Officer, 2013-2016. (2)

Meyer is known for his work in theoretical computer science. He served as a principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL). Over the course of his career, Meyer supervised 27 PhD candidates in his field. From 1982-2020, Meyer served as editor-in-chief of the computer-science journal, Information and Computation. (3)

1. Albert R. Meyer. Curriculum vitae. April 30, 2004, http://people.csail.mit.edu/meyer/vita.pdf.

2. MIT News. “Albert Meyer Named EECS Undergraduate Officer.” July 16, 2013, http://news.mit.edu/2013/albert-meyer-named-eecs-undergraduate-officer.

3. MIT CSAIL. “Albert R. Meyer” accessed June 30, 2020, https://www.csail.mit.edu/person/albert-r-meyer.