J. W. J. Williams
John William Joseph Williams (1929 or 1930 - 29 September 2012) was a Welsh-born computer scientist best known for inventing in 1964 heapsort and the binary heap data structure.[1] He spent the latter part of his career in Canada, moving to Kanata in 1972 and working for Bell-Northern Research and Nortel before retiring in 1995.
References
- ^ Williams, J. W. J. (1964), "Algorithm 232 - Heapsort", Communications of the ACM, 7 (6): 347–348, doi:10.1145/512274.512284
External links
- "J.W.J. Williams Obituary". Ottawa Citizen. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
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