Richard Brent

male, 63 years old
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Erdős number 2, Complex Systems Scientist, Euler-Mascheroni constant, John Pollard, factorization…algorithms
Richard Peirce Brent is an Australian mathematician and computer scientist, born in 1946. As of October 2005 he is an ARC Federation Fellow at the...
Abraham Lempel

Abraham Lempel

male
Israeli, LZ78, LZ77, lossless, LZ77 and LZ78, compression algorithm…algorithms, timeline of algorithms
Abraham Lempel is a computer scientist and one of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms. Originally from Poland,...
F. Thomson Leighton

F. Thomson Leighton

male
Princeton University alumni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni, Ph.D., algorithms, Applied Mathematics, Princeton University…Algorithms group
Tom Leighton is a co-founder of Akamai, the leading provider of outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. As chief scientist, Dr....

László Babai

male
University of Chicago, mathematician, hungarian, University of Chicago faculty, Gödel Prize laureate, algorithms
László Babai, born in 1950, is a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on co...
Mark Wegman

Mark Wegman

male
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, IBM Fellow, American, Fellow of the IEEE, Universal hashing, Mark N. Wegman…algorithms
Mark N. Wegman is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to algorithms and compiler optimization. Wegman received his B.S. from...
Chris Ferguson

Chris Ferguson

male, 46 years old
World Series of Poker, World Series of Poker Main Event winner, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, wsop, Virtual Network, algorithms
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson (born Christopher Philip Ferguson April 11 1963, in Los Angeles, California) is a professional poker player. Ferguson...
Jeffrey Vitter

Jeffrey Vitter

male, 54 years old (West Lafayette, Indiana, United States)
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Stanford University alumni, Sigma Xi, University of Notre Dame alumni, Purdue University faculty, Guggenheim Fellowship…algorithms, string algorithms, Analysis of algorithms
Jeffrey Scott Vitter (born 1955 in New Orleans, Louisiana) serves as the Frederick L. Hovde Dean of Science at Purdue University in West Lafayette,...

Michael Langston

male
United States Department of Energy, Texas A&M, VLSI, Computational Biology, graph theory, biomechanics…algorithms
Dr. Michael Allen Langston (PhD. from Texas A&M in 1981) is a computer science professor at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is one of...

Timothy J. Hickey

male
GrewpEdit, JScheme, Brandeis University faculty, Groupware, algorithms, Brandeis University
Timothy J Hickey, otherwise known as Tim "The Love Bite" Hickey, is a professor of computer science and Chair of the Computer Science and Internet...

Jeff Westbrook

male
Harvard University, Kill Gil Vols. 1 & 2, The Wettest Stories Ever Told, AT&T Laboratories, Simpsons, Erdős number 3…algorithms, Algorithms and Data
Jeff Westbrook is an American TV writer best known for his work on "The Simpsons" and "Futurama". Prior to becoming a TV writer, Westbrook was a...