Robert Sedgewick (computer scientist)
| Robert Sedgewick | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 20, 1946 |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Princeton University Brown University (1975–85) |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald Knuth |
| Notable awards | ACM Fellow (1997) |
Robert Sedgewick (born 1946) is a computer science professor at Princeton University and a member of the board of directors of Adobe Systems.[1]
Sedgewick completed his Ph.D. in 1975 under the supervision of Donald Knuth at Stanford. His thesis was about the quicksort algorithm.[2] In 1975–85 he served on the faculty of Brown University.
Sedgewick was the founding Chairman (1985) of the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University and is currently still a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton.[3] He was a visiting researcher at Xerox PARC, Institute for Defense Analyses and INRIA.[4]
In 1997 Robert Sedgewick was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for his seminal work in the mathematical analysis of algorithms and pioneering research in algorithm animation.[5]
Robert Sedgewick is the author of a well-known book series Algorithms, published by Addison-Wesley. The first edition of the book was published in 1983 and contained code in Pascal. Subsequent editions used C, C++, Modula-3, and Java.
[edit] Bibliography
- Sedgewick, Robert (1983). Algorithms (1st ed.). Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-06672-6.
- Flajolet, Philippe; Sedgewick, Robert (1995). An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0201400090.
- Flajolet, Philippe; Sedgewick, Robert (2009). Analytic Combinatorics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521898065. http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/AnaCombi/anacombi.html.
