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Raphael Finkel

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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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Birth Year
1951 1
Birth Date
1951-06-24 1
Nationality
American 2
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1. Wikidata: Raphael Finkel
  • Wikidata Q3560978, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q3560978 P569 (date of birth)
2. Wikipedia: Raphael Finkel
  • Lead paragraph, birth year
    Raphael Finkel (born 1951)
  • Lead paragraph, nationality
    is an American computer scientist and a retired professor
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