# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ellis-horowitz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:21:44.610Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ellis-horowitz"
name: "Ellis Horowitz"
slug: "ellis-horowitz"
description: "Ellis Horowitz is an American computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). Horowitz is best known for his computer science textbooks on data structures and algorithms, co-authored with Sartaj Sahni. At USC, Horowitz was chairman of the Computer Science Department from 1990 to 1999. During his tenure he significantly improved relations between Computer Science and the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), hiring senior faculty and establishing the department's first industrial advisory board. From 1983 to 1993 with Lawrence Flon he co-founded Quality Software Products which designed and built UNIX application software. Their products included two spreadsheet programs, Q-calc and eXclaim, a project management system, MasterPlan, and a floating license server, Maitre D. The company was sold to Island Graphics."
tagline: "American computer scientist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/EllisHorowitzPhoto.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.604824
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.ellishorowitz.com/"
sources:
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    title: "اليس هورويتز"
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    title: "الیس هورویتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Horowitz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump