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Algorithm Design and Analysis

This group gathers pioneers of theory of computation whose primary contribution was designing and analyzing algorithms and data structures for general computational problems, including sorting and searching, graph algorithms, numerical and matrix algorithms, randomized and approximation algorithms, data compression, coding theory, and the data structures such as hash tables, B-trees and Fibonacci heaps that support them. It follows the Design and analysis of algorithms second-level heading of the ACM Computing Classification System under Theory of Computation. Their shared work is stating an algorithm precisely and proving how much time, space or other resource it needs, as distinct from classifying which problems admit an efficient algorithm at all, which belongs to Computational Complexity Theory, or building a cryptographic scheme, which belongs to Cryptography and Cryptanalysis.

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Raphael Finkel

Theory of Computation
2 links

Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Theory of Computation
4 links

Richard E. Bellman

Theory of Computation
3 links

Richard Fateman

Theory of Computation
1 link

Richard Hamming

Theory of Computation
1 link

Richard J. Cole

Theory of Computation
1 link

Richard P. Brent

Theory of Computation
6 links

Robert Calderbank

Theory of Computation

Robert Henry Risch

Theory of Computation
3 links

Robert S. Boyer

Theory of Computation
5 links

Robin Li

Theory of Computation

Ronald Graham

Theory of Computation
3 links

Rudolf E. Kálmán

Theory of Computation
3 links

Ruth Nussinov

Theory of Computation
1 link

Sartaj Sahni

Theory of Computation
1 link

Sergey Brin

Theory of Computation
2 links

Shang-Hua Teng

Theory of Computation
1 link

Stefan Kaczmarz

Theory of Computation
3 links

Stefan Langerman

Theory of Computation
1 link

Stephen Wolfram

Theory of Computation
4 links

Sue Whitesides

Theory of Computation
2 links

Susanne Albers

Theory of Computation
1 link

Tamal Dey

Theory of Computation
1 link

Terry Welch

Theory of Computation
3 links

Tetsuo Asano

Theory of Computation
1 link

Theodore Motzkin

Theory of Computation
4 links

Theodorus Dekker

Theory of Computation
3 links

Théophile Pépin

Theory of Computation
3 links

Thomas G. Szymanski

Theory of Computation
3 links

Timo Raita

Theory of Computation
3 links

Timothy M. Chan

Theory of Computation
2 links

Tom Leighton

Theory of Computation

Vaughan Pratt

Theory of Computation
1 link

Vijay Vazirani

Theory of Computation
2 links

Vineet Bafna

Theory of Computation
1 link

Vladimir Levenshtein

Theory of Computation
3 links

Walter Edwin Arnoldi

Theory of Computation
3 links

William H. Press

Theory of Computation

William Kahan

Theory of Computation
3 links

Yann Collet

Theory of Computation
2 links

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1. Wikipedia: The Art of Computer Programming
Wikimedia FoundationThe Art of Computer Programming, lead section, first volume completion sentence
Quote, The Art of Computer Programming, lead section, first volume completion sentence
The first volume of "The Art of Computer Programming", "Fundamental Algorithms", took five years to complete between 1963 and 1968 while working at both Caltech and Burroughs.
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Donald Shell (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Donald Shell, Lead section
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who designed the Shellsort sorting algorithm
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Jon Bentley (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jon Bentley, Lead section
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known for his contributions to computer programming, algorithms and data structure research
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Vladimir Levenshtein (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Vladimir Levenshtein, Lead section
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he is known for the Levenshtein distance and a Levenshtein algorithm, which he developed in 1965
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Donald Marquardt (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Donald Marquardt, Lead section
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was an American statistician, the rediscoverer of the Levenberg
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Jon Kleinberg (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jon Kleinberg, Lead section
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known for his work in algorithms and networks
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Abraham Lempel (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Abraham Lempel, Lead section
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one of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms
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Jacob Ziv (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jacob Ziv, Lead section
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who developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms alongside Abraham Lempel
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Terry Welch (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Terry Welch, Lead section
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Along with Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv, he developed the lossless
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Kenneth Levenberg (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Kenneth Levenberg, Lead section
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original author of the widely used nonlinear least squares fitting algorithm
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Robert Henry Risch (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Robert Henry Risch, Lead section
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is known for his work on symbolic integration, specifically the Risch algorithm
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Michelle Girvan (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Michelle Girvan, Lead section
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used to detect community structure in complex systems
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Elizabeth Cuthill (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Elizabeth Cuthill, Lead section
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known for her work on sparse matrix algorithms
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Ronald Graham (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Ronald Graham, Lead section
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He did important work in scheduling theory, computational geometry
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Rudolf E. Kálmán (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Rudolf E. Kálmán, Lead section
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He is most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm
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Cornelius Lanczos (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Cornelius Lanczos, Career section
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He began conducting research in numerical analysis, and developed a number of concepts in service of early digital computers.
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Stefan Kaczmarz (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Stefan Kaczmarz, Lead paragraph
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He is known for introducing the Kaczmarz method
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Edouard Lucas (MacTutor)
Has Member: Edouard Lucas, Biography
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devised the test for Mersenne primes still used today
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Théophile Pépin (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Théophile Pépin, Lead
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He also gave his name to Pépin's test, a test of primality for Fermat numbers
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Bruno Buchberger (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Bruno Buchberger, Article text
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In his 1965 Ph.D. thesis, he created the theory of Gröbner bases
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Coenraad Bron (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Coenraad Bron, Article text
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Together with Joep Kerbosch he invented the Bron-Kerbosch algorithm for the clique problem.
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Theodorus Dekker (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Theodorus Dekker, Lead
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Dekker invented an algorithm that allows two processes to share a single-use resource without conflict
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Pierre de Fermat (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Pierre de Fermat, Work
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He invented a factorization method
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LZ4 (compression algorithm) (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Yann Collet, Implementation
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The reference implementation in C by Yann Collet is licensed under a BSD license.
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Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Markus F. X. J. Oberhumer, Design
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was developed by Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
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Dormand-Prince method (Wikipedia)
  • Has Member: John R. Dormand, Lead
    Dormand and Prince chose the coefficients of their method to minimize the error of the fifth-order solution.
  • Has Member: P. J. Prince, Lead
    Dormand and Prince chose the coefficients of their method to minimize the error of the fifth-order solution.
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Elwyn Berlekamp (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Elwyn Berlekamp, Lead
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Berlekamp invented an algorithm to factor polynomials
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Christian Zeller (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Christian Zeller, Lead
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delivered a short account of his congruence relation
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Walter Edwin Arnoldi (source article)
Has Member: Walter Edwin Arnoldi, Lead
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an eigenvalue algorithm used in numerical linear algebra
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James A. Storer (Brandeis home page)
Has Member: James A. Storer, Lead
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data compression and archiving (including text, images, video, and multi-media)
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Lempel-Ziv-Storer-Szymanski (source article)
Has Member: Thomas G. Szymanski, Lead
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created in 1982 by James A. Storer and Thomas Szymanski
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Michael Mitzenmacher (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Michael Mitzenmacher, Research
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Mitzenmacher's research covers the design and analysis of randomised algorithms and processes.
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Carl Runge (MacTutor)
Has Member: Carl Runge, Summary
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Carl Runge worked on a procedure for the numerical solution of algebraic equations
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NA Digest, Volume 20, Issue 25: Jeff Cash announcement
Has Member: Jeff R. Cash, NA Digest post, Jeff Cash
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Jeff's research has been mainly focused on the solution of difference and differential equations, with an emphasis on mathematical software.
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Commentz-Walter algorithm (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Beate Commentz-Walter, Lead paragraph
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the Commentz-Walter algorithm is a string searching algorithm invented by Beate Commentz-Walter
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Raita algorithm (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Timo Raita, Lead paragraph
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This algorithm was published by Timo Raita in 1991
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Philippe Flajolet (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Philippe Flajolet, Biography
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general methods for analyzing the computational complexity of algorithms
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Henk van der Vorst (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Henk van der Vorst, Lead, contributions paragraph
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preconditioned iterative methods
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Lloyd Shapley (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Lloyd Shapley, Contribution
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algorithm for the stable marriage problem
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Llewellyn Thomas (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Llewellyn Thomas, Lead
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devising an efficient method for solving tridiagonal system of linear equations (Thomas algorithm)
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Jacobus Verhoeff (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jacobus Verhoeff, Lead
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He is best known for his check-digit Verhoeff algorithm
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Vaughan Pratt (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Vaughan Pratt, Lead [in-field]
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Pratt has made several contributions to foundational areas such as search algorithms, sorting algorithms, and primality testing.
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Dan Hirschberg (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Dan Hirschberg, Lead paragraph
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His research interests are in the theory of design and analysis of algorithms.
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Brenda Baker (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Brenda Baker, Lead paragraph
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She is known for Baker's technique for approximation algorithms on planar graphs
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Moses Charikar (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Moses Charikar, Lead paragraph
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The topics of his research include approximation algorithms, streaming algorithms, and metric embeddings.
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John Iacono (Wikipedia)
Has Member: John Iacono, Lead section [in-field]
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specializing in data structures, algorithms and computational geometry
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Stefan Langerman (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Stefan Langerman, Lead section [in-group]
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professor and co-head of the algorithms research group
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Michael Fredman (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Michael Fredman, Lead
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Michael Lawrence Fredman is an emeritus professor at the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University, United States. He earned his Ph.
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Nigel Horspool (Wikipedia)
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R. Nigel Horspool is a retired professor of computer science, formerly of the University of Victoria. He invented the Boyer-Moore-Horspool
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Raimund Seidel (Wikipedia)
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Raimund G. Seidel is a German and Austrian theoretical computer scientist and an expert in computational geometry.
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Ruth Nussinov (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Ruth Nussinov, English Wikipedia, intro
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Nussinov proposed the first dynamic programming approach for nucleic acid secondary structure prediction, this method is now known as the Nussinov algorithm.
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Dana Ron (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Dana Ron, Professional career
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Her research interests include sublinear-time algorithms (in particular property testing), randomized algorithms, and computational learning theory.
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Eugene Myers (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Eugene Myers, Lead sentence [in-group]
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BLAST tool for sequence analysis
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Dana Randall (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Dana Randall, Lead paragraph
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randomized algorithms
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Wikipedia: Anna Karlin
Has Member: Anna Karlin, Lead paragraph
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is an American computer scientist, the Microsoft Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
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Wikipedia: Frances Yao
Has Member: Frances Yao, Lead paragraph
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is a Chinese mathematician and theoretical computer scientist
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Susanne Albers (source article)
Has Member: Susanne Albers, Research
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Albers' research is in the design and analysis of algorithms, especially online algorithms, approximation algorithms, algorithmic game theory and algorithm engineering.
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Margaret H. Wright (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Margaret H. Wright, Scientific career, barrier methods
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It was immediately clear to the Gang of Four and John Tomlin that this was a special case of barrier methods
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Ileana Streinu (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Ileana Streinu, Awards, carpenter's rule
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for her combinatorial solution to the carpenter's rule problem
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Charles Colbourn (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Charles Colbourn, Lead, graph algorithms research
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whose research concerns graph algorithms, combinatorial designs, and their applications
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Diane Souvaine (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Diane Souvaine, Recognition, ACM fellow
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In 2011, she was listed as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for her research in computational geometry
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Sue Whitesides (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Sue Whitesides, Service, Symposium on Computational Geometry
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program co-chair for the 2012 Symposium on Computational Geometry
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John G. F. Francis (Wikipedia)
Has Member: John G. F. Francis, Lead, algorithm ranking
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which has been named as one of the ten most important algorithms of the twentieth century
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David G. Kirkpatrick (Wikipedia)
Has Member: David G. Kirkpatrick, Lead, algorithm
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He is known for the Kirkpatrick-Seidel algorithm
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Theodore Motzkin (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Theodore Motzkin, Contributions to mathematics, group
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He first developed the "double description" algorithm of polyhedral combinatorics and computational geometry.
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Gerald Goertzel (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Gerald Goertzel, Lead, best known work
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He is best known for creating the Goertzel algorithm.
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Burton Wendroff (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Burton Wendroff, Lead
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known for his contributions to the development of numerical methods for the solution of hyperbolic partial differential equations
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Peter Lax (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Peter Lax, Career
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Concepts that bear Lax's name include the Lax equivalence theorem, which explained when numerical computer approximations would be reliable
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Norman Levinson (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Norman Levinson, Lead
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signal processing
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Peter Borwein (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Peter Borwein, Research
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Borwein has developed an algorithm that applies Chebyshev polynomials to the Dirichlet eta function
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Jonathan Borwein (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Jonathan Borwein, Lead
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Borwein was also an expert on the number pi and especially its computation.
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George S. Lueker (UC Irvine faculty page)
Has Member: George S. Lueker, Research Interests
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George Lueker's interests are in the area of the design and analysis of algorithms for concrete problems.
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