John Hopcroft, the IBM Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Cornell, has been awarded the Harry M. Goode award of the IEEE Computer Society in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the study of algorithms and their applications in information processing. He accepted the award at a ceremony Nov. 3 in Philadelphia, where he was presented with a bronze medal and $2,000.

Presented annually since 1964, the IEEE Harry M. Goode award recognizes its members for outstanding accomplishments in the information processing field that are considered either a single contribution of theory, design or technique of outstanding significance or the accumulation of important contributions on theory or practice over an extended time period, the total of which represent an outstanding contribution.

Hopcroft's research centers on theoretical aspects of computing, especially analysis of algorithms, automata theory and graph algorithms. He has co-authored four books on formal languages and algorithms, and his most recent work is on the study of information capture and access.