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Raphael Finkel
American computer scientist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1951 · age 75
Raphael Finkel is an American computer scientist and a retired professor at the University of Kentucky. He compiled the first version of the Jargon File.
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He is the author of An Operating Systems Vade Mecum, a textbook on operating systems, and Advanced Programming Language Design, an introductory book on programming paradigms. Finkel and J.L. Bentley created the data structure called the quadtree.
Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1951 · age 75
