名人面對面－約翰·霍普克羅夫特：教育的目的

約翰·霍普克羅夫特是著名計算機學教授，在1986年他獲得計算機界有諾貝爾獎之稱的「圖靈獎」。從上世紀60年代開始，約翰先後任職於美國普林斯頓大學和康奈爾大學，培養的學生有十餘位當選美國、英國和加拿大等國家院士，其中三名學生也和他一樣，獲得了圖靈獎。近十年，他來到中國，先後加入多所高校，致力於中國計算機學科建設和人才培養，他說自己真正想做的事情是改善教育。

John Hopcroft is a renowned professor of computer science. In 1986, he won the “Turing Award”, known as the Nobel Prize in computer science. Since the 1960s, John worked at Princeton University and Cornell University in the United States. Many of his students have been elected as academicians in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries. Three of them, like Hopcroft, won the Turing Award. In the past ten years, he came to China and joined a number of universities dedicated to constructing China’s computer disciplines and personnel training. He said what he wanted to do was to improve education.