Raphael Finkel is an American computer scientist and retired professor at the University of Kentucky who compiled the first version of the Jargon File, a glossary of hacker slang. He authored the textbook An Operating Systems Vade Mecum and the introductory book Advanced Programming Language Design, and with J. L. Bentley he created the quadtree, a widely used data structure for organizing points in multidimensional space.
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Raphael Finkel (born 1951)
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is an American computer scientist and a retired professor
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author of An Operating Systems Vade Mecum, a textbook on operating systems
In Field: Programming Language Theory, Lead
Advanced Programming Language Design, an introductory book on programming paradigms
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