Jim Horning
Overview
United States
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computer scientist
Computer scientist
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and ACM Fellow.
Jim Horning received a PhD
Doctor of Philosophy
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in computer science from Stanford University
Stanford University
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in 1969 for a thesis entitled A Study of Grammatical Inference. He was a founding member, and later Chairman, of the Computer Systems Research Group
Computer Systems Research Group
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at the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
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, Canada
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(1969–1977). He was then a Research Fellow at the Xerox
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Palo Alto Research Center (PARC, 1977–1984) and a founding member and Senior Consultant at DEC Systems Research Center
DEC Systems Research Center
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(DEC/SRC, 1984–1996).