June 24, 2024
John Hopcroft, Winner of China’s International Science and Technology Cooperation Award: “China Feels Like Home—And I Hope to Still Be Teaching at SJTU When I’m 100”
On June 24, world-renowned U.S. computer scientist John Edward Hopcroft, was awarded the People’s Republic of China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award. According to Jiefang Daily and Shangguan News, the 85-year-old foreign academician has spent the majority of each year over the past five years living and working at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), where both faculty and students affectionately call him “John.”