Peter van Emde Boas (born 3 April 1945, Amsterdam)[1] is a Dutch computer scientist and professor at the University of Amsterdam.[2] He gained his doctorate in 1974 under Adriaan van Wijngaarden.[3] The Van Emde Boas tree is named after him.[4]
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Born | Amsterdam | April 3, 1945
Known for | Van Emde Boas tree |
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Doctoral advisor | Adriaan van Wijngaarden |
References
edit- ^ Dr. P. van Emde Boas, 1945 - at the University of Amsterdam Album Academicum online
- ^ "Prof.dr Peter van Emde Boas". Retrieved 5 November 2015.
- ^ Peter van Emde Boas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Peter van Emde Boas Preserving order in a forest in less than logarithmic time, Proceedings of the 16th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 1975, S. 75-84 - doi:10.1109/SFCS.1975.26