David Wheeler

David John Wheeler, computer scientist: born Birmingham 27 February 1927; Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge 1951-57; Assistant Director of Research, Mathematical Laboratory, Cambridge University 1956-66, Reader in Computer Science 1966-78, Professor of Computer Science 1978-94 (Emeritus); Fellow, Darwin College, Cambridge 1967-94 (Emeritus); FRS 1981; married 1957 Joyce Blackler (one son, two daughters); died Cambridge 13 December 2004.

In 1978 Wheeler was appointed Professor of Computer Science, and in 1981 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. Beyond the laboratory (now renamed the Computer Laboratory), he was a consultant for Bell Labs and the Digital Equipment Corporation in the United States. At the latter he worked with Mike Burrows to devise the Burrows-Wheeler Compression Algorithm, a now-standard technique for reducing the size of computer files.

The Independent

Links: N/A
E-mail: N/A
Programs: bred

(Have info that should be added here? E-mail.)

 

2017-2024 © www.compressionratings.com