Jeffrey Olman is a renowned computer scientist and professor Emeritus at Stanford University,

celebrated for his groundbreaking contributions to database systems, compilers, and algorithms.

He co-authored influential texts like Principles of Database Systems and Compilers,

principles, techniques, and tools, both of which have profoundly shaped the field of computer

science.

Jeffrey received the 2020 Touring Award, together with Alfred A.O., quote, for fundamental

algorithms and theory underlying programming language implementation, and for synthesizing these

results and those of others in their highly influential books, which educated generations

of computer scientists. In this episode,

he joins Kevin Ball to talk about his life and career. Kevin Ball, or K. Ball, is the vice

president of engineering at Mento and an independent coach for engineers and engineering leaders.

He co-founded and served as CTO for two companies, founded the San Diego JavaScript meetup,

and organizes the AI inaction discussion group through latent space.

Check out the show notes to follow KBall on Twitter or LinkedIn, or visit his website, k Engineering Daily listeners.

I'm Kball, and it is my privilege and honor today to welcome Turing Award winner Jeffrey Olman to the show.

Hello, everyone, and thank you for inviting me to your esteemed podcast.

Yeah, I'm excited to talk with you.

I know you have such a kind of rich and varied background.

How do you introduce yourself these days?

Like, I know you mentioned a lot of the stuff you did was old hat. So what do you describe yourself

as today? I'm basically retired over the hill, super numerary. Let's face it, folks, computer science is a

young person's game, and I ain't that anymore. So that is fair. Though I think,

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