Michael Burrows

Michael Burrows (born 1963) is a British computer scientist, one of the creators of the AltaVista search engine and co-author of the paper that first described the Burrows-Wheeler transform. He has worked at the Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center, Microsoft, Google and the University of Cambridge, with research spanning data compression, security protocols, distributed systems and concurrency and synchronization. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013, received the SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award in 2003, the IET Achievement Medal in Computer Engineering in 2019, and shared the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award in 2022 with Paolo Ferragina and Giovanni Manzini.