Robert Sedgewick (computer scientist), Date of Birth

    

Robert Sedgewick (computer scientist)

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 20-Dec-1946

Profession: writer, computer scientist, university teacher, programmer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Robert Sedgewick (computer scientist)

  • Robert Sedgewick (born December 20, 1946) is an American computer science professor at Princeton University and a former member of the board of directors of Adobe Systems.
  • Sedgewick completed his Ph.D.
  • in 1975 under the supervision of Donald Knuth at Stanford.
  • His thesis was about the quicksort algorithm.
  • In 1975–85, he served on the faculty of Brown University. Sedgewick was the founding chairman (1985) of the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University and is still a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton.
  • He was a visiting researcher at Xerox PARC, Institute for Defense Analyses and INRIA.In 1978, along with Leo J Guibas, Sedgewick devised the Red–black tree data structure, by adapting the work of Rudolf Bayer.
  • In 1997, Sedgewick was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for his seminal work in the mathematical analysis of algorithms and pioneering research in algorithm animation.Sedgewick is the author of a book series entitled Algorithms, published by Addison-Wesley.
  • The first edition of the book was published in 1983 and contained code in Pascal.
  • Subsequent editions used C, C++, Modula-3, and Java.
  • Together with Philippe Flajolet, he wrote several books and preprints which promoted analytic combinatorics, a discipline which relies on the use of generating functions and complex analysis in order to enumerate combinatorial structures, and to study their asymptotic properties.
  • In The Art of Computer Programming, Knuth describes this as the key to performing average case analysis of algorithms.

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