Raphael Finkel

Raphael Finkel (born 1951) is an American computer scientist and a professor at the University of Kentucky. He compiled the first version of the Jargon File. He is the author of "An Operating Systems Vade Mecum", a textbook on operating systems, and "Advanced Programming Language Design", an introductory book on programming paradigms. Raphael Finkel and J.L. Bentley created the data structure called the quadtree.

Biography

Finkel was born in Chicago. He entered the University of Chicago, where he earned his BA in mathematics and MA in teaching. He then earned a PhD at Stanford University under the supervision of Vinton Cerf.

Finkel obtained a position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison after completing his doctorate, and remained there from 1976 until 1987, when he took a position at the University of Kentucky.

External links

* [http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/ Homepage at the University of Kentucky]
*ftp://ftp.cs.uky.edu/cs/manuscripts/vade.mecum.2.pdf - An Operating Systems Vade Mecum
*ftp://ftp.aw.com/cseng/authors/finkel/apld/ - Advanced Programming Language Design
*http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~santhas/research/paper1/node4.html
* [http://www.genealogy.ams.org/html/id.phtml?id=82418 Academic genealogy of Raphael Finkel]
* [http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/info/seminars/20010227-rfinkel.html Seminar notice including biography]