Kellogg S. Booth is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, where he directed the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre from 1990 to 2002 and was Scientific Director of the GRAND network of centres of excellence from 2009 to 2015. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Caltech, and a master's degree and PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley, and worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1968 to 1976 and at the University of Waterloo from 1977 to 1990. He has worked in computer graphics and human-computer interaction since 1968, with interests in user interface design, collaboration technology and visualization and the analysis of algorithms. With George S. Lueker he discovered and named the PQ tree in 1976. He received the CS-Can Info-Can Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021 and has been a Distinguished Member of the ACM since 2010.
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1. PQ tree (Wikipedia)
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discovered and named by Kellogg S. Booth and George S. Lueker in 1976
Kellogg S. Booth (UBC faculty page)
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He has worked in the fields of computer graphics and human-computer interaction since 1968.
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