Daniel Sleator
Daniel Sleator | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 December 1953 (age 72) |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Stanford University |
| Children | Leon Sleator |
| Awards | Paris Kanellakis Award (1999) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Tarjan |
Daniel Dominic Kaplan Sleator (born 10 December 1953) is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, United States. In 1999, he won the ACM Paris Kanellakis Award (jointly with Robert Tarjan) for the splay tree data structure.[2]
He was one of the pioneers in amortized analysis of algorithms, early examples of which were the analyses of the move-to-front heuristic,[3] and splay trees.[4] He invented many data structures with Robert Tarjan, such as splay trees, link/cut trees, and skew heaps.
The Sleator and Tarjan paper on the move-to-front heuristic[3] first suggested the idea of comparing an online algorithm to an optimal offline algorithm, for which the term competitive analysis was later coined in a paper of Karlin, Manasse, Rudolph, and Sleator.[5] Sleator also developed the theory of link grammars, and the Serioso music analyzer for analyzing meter and harmony in written music.
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Sleator was born to William Warner Sleator, Jr., a professor of physiology and biophysics, and Esther Kaplan Sleator, a pediatrician who did pioneering research on attention deficit disorder (ADD).[6] He is the younger brother of William Sleator, who wrote science fiction for young adults.
Sleator commercialized the volunteer-based Internet Chess Server into the Internet Chess Club despite outcry from fellow volunteers. The ICS has since become one of the most successful internet-based commercial chess servers.
From 2003 to 2008, Sleator co-hosted the progressive talk show Left Out on WRCT-FM with Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science faculty member Bob Harper.
He is also an active member of the competitive programming platform Codeforces.[7]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale, 2004
- ^ Citation for Sleator and Tarjan Kanellakis Award Archived 2012-02-11 at the Wayback Machine
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External links
[edit | edit source]- The CMU home page of Daniel Sleator
- The Internet Chess Club
- Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
- Left Out radio show
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