Robert Sedgewick (computer scientist)
- Robert Sedgewick (computer scientist)
Robert Sedgewick is the author of the celebrated book series Algorithms, published by Addison-Wesley.
The series includes:
* "Algorithms" (in Pascal)
* "Algorithms in C"
* "Algorithms in C++"
* "Algorithms in Java"
Sedgewick completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Donald Knuth at Stanford. His thesis was about quicksort. In 1997 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
He is currently a computer science professor at Princeton University and sits on the board of directors of Adobe Systems.
External links
* [http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~rs/ Homepage at Princeton]
* [http://www.accu.informika.ru/accu/bookreviews/public/reviews/a/a000167.htm ACCU reviews "Algorithms in C"]
* [http://www.accu.informika.ru/accu/bookreviews/public/reviews/a/a000168.htm ACCU reviews "Algorithms in C++"]
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