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This biography of Galil has been partly written by Eppstein, a friend of Galil's. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.41.51.240 (talk) 12:51, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
More accurately, he was my dissertation advisor. If you look at what changes I made, I think you'll see that they consist largely of finding proper sources for the facts others had already included in the article. It's hard to see how much bias could have crept in there, and hard to see why anyone would prefer the unsourced version of the article. —David Eppstein (talk) 14:24, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I added to the "Research" section several references to his most highly cited work. However, I think it would be better to have this section discuss the impact of his work (which would require more familiarity than I currently have). Specifically, it appears that he was influential in the study of pattern matching, perhaps more could be said about this. Justin W Smithtalk/stalk 18:39, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I think it might be a good idea to fill in the |doctoral_students= line of the infobox. But it would be a bit of a conflict of interest for me to do it myself because I seem to be the only bluelinked one. The list from the mathematics genealogy project (reference 4) is I think reasonably accurate as far as it goes, but it is missing several students, including Stuart Haber, Raffaele Giancarlo, Amir Ben-Amram, and Kunsoo Park. The SIGACT genealogy link at the bottom of the page is dead, but mirrors of the data exist e.g. here. The union of the mathgenealogy and SIGACT data is probably close to right. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:01, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! One more factoid to add: his birthday is June 26, 1947. Source: David Eppstein and Giuseppe Italiano (1999), "Preface: Festschrift for Zvi Galil", Journal of Complexity, vol. 15, issue 1–3, pages 1–3, doi:10.1006/jcom.1998.0492. The same preface also sources the birthplace of Tel Aviv already in the article and the facts of his academic biography up to 1997, including being chair from 1989 until becoming dean in 1995 (currently tagged as needing a cite). It also has several paragraphs describing his general research interests, but not with reference to any specific papers. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:04, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I just stumbled across this page and do not have a dog in this hunt, however, I don't think it's possible he was born in Israel if that date of birth is correct since Israel did not yet exist? Maybe Tel Aviv did but not Israel. It could potentially be changed to say "born in what is now Israel" or just "Tel Aviv". What do you think? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.183.97.188 (talk) 03:37, 16 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
I went with just "Tel Aviv" - it's the most accurate way I could think of phrasing it. Thanks for pointing this out! Disavian (talk) 20:30, 17 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
