Robert Sedgewick (computer scientist)
Robert Sedgewick | |
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Sedgewick in 2020 | |
| Born | December 20, 1946 Willimantic, Connecticut, United States |
| Alma mater | Brown University (B.S.; M.S.) Stanford University (Ph.D.) |
| Awards | ACM Fellow (1997), Flajolet Prize, Leroy P. Steele Prize, and Karlstrom Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Princeton University Brown University (1975–85) |
| Thesis | Quicksort (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald Knuth |
Robert Sedgewick (born December 20, 1946) is an American computer scientist. He is the founding chair and the William O. Baker Professor in Computer Science at Princeton University and was a member of the board of directors of Adobe Systems (1990–2016). He previously served on the faculty at Brown University and has held visiting research positions at Xerox PARC, Institute for Defense Analyses, and INRIA. His research expertise is in algorithm science, data structures, and analytic combinatorics. He is also active in developing college curriculums in computer science.