David Gries

David Gries
David Gries in 2022
Born	(1939-04-26) April 26, 1939 (age 85) Flushing, Queens, New York, United States
Alma mater	Queens College, City University of New York (BS) University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (MS) Technical University of Munich (Dr)
Known for	First text on Compiler construction (1971)[4][5] Interference freedom Contributions to programming methodology, algorithms, CS education
Awards	AFIPS Education Award (1986) ACM SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education (1991) IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award (1994)[1] ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award (1995)[2]
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory Stanford University University of Georgia Cornell University
Doctoral advisors	Friedrich L. Bauer Josef Stoer
Doctoral students	Susan Graham (1971) Susan Owicki (1975) Jennifer Widom (1989) T. V. Raman (1994) Michael E. Caspersen (2007)[3]
Website	cs.cornell.edu/gries

David Gries (born April 26, 1939) is an American computer scientist at Cornell University, mainly known for his books The Science of Programming (1981) and A Logical Approach to Discrete Math (1993, with Fred B. Schneider).

He was associate dean for undergraduate programs at the Cornell University College of Engineering from 2003–2011. His research interests include programming methodology and related areas such as programming languages, related semantics, and logic. His son, Paul Gries, has been a co-author of an introductory textbook to computer programming using the language Python and is a teaching stream professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto.