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David Wheeler (computer scientist)

David Wheeler
Born
David John Wheeler

(1927-02-09)9 February 1927[5]
Birmingham, England
Died13 December 2004(2004-12-13) (aged 77)
Cambridge, England
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of Cambridge (MA, PhD)
Known forinventing subroutines
Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT)[6]
Tiny Encryption Algorithm (TEA)[7]
Wheeler Jump[8]
WAKE
EDSAC[9]
AwardsFellow of the Royal Society (1981)
Computer Pioneer Award (1985)
Fellow, Computer History Museum (2003)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Computer Lab, Cambridge
Darwin College, Cambridge
Thesis Automatic Computing With EDSAC  (1951)
Doctoral advisorMaurice Wilkes[2]
Doctoral students

David John Wheeler FRS (9 February 1927 – 13 December 2004)[10][11][12] was a computer scientist and professor of computer science at the University of Cambridge.[13][14][15][16]

  1. ^ "David John Wheeler: 2003 Fellow". Computer History Museum. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e David Wheeler at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Li, Gong; Wheeler, David J. (1990). "A matrix key-distribution scheme". Journal of Cryptology. 2 (1): 51–59. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.51.1279. doi:10.1007/bf02252869. S2CID 30468228.
  4. ^ Hopper, Andy (1978). Local Area Computer Communication Networks (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
  5. ^ Campbell-Kelly, Martin (2004). "Wheeler, David John (1927–2004)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 1 (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/94633. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ Burrows, Michael; Wheeler, David J. (1994), A block sorting lossless data compression algorithm, Technical Report 124, Digital Equipment Corporation
  7. ^ Wheeler, D. J.; Needham, R. M. (1995). "TEA, a tiny encryption algorithm". Fast Software Encryption. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 1008. p. 363. doi:10.1007/3-540-60590-8_29. ISBN 978-3-540-60590-4.
  8. ^ Wheeler, D. J. (1952). "The use of sub-routines in programmes". Proceedings of the 1952 ACM national meeting (Pittsburgh) on - ACM '52. p. 235. doi:10.1145/609784.609816. Archived from the original on 28 June 2015.
  9. ^ Wheeler, D. J. (1992). "The EDSAC programming systems". IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. 14 (4): 34–40. doi:10.1109/85.194053. S2CID 23064533.
  10. ^ Campbell-Kelly, M. (2006). "David John Wheeler. 9 February 1927 -- 13 December 2004: Elected FRS 1981". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 52: 437–453. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2006.0030.
  11. ^ "David Wheeler, 1927–2004". Obituaries. Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
  12. ^ "Professor David Wheeler". Obituaries. The Independent. London. 22 December 2004. Retrieved 21 July 2011.[dead link]
  13. ^ David Wheeler publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
  14. ^ Wheeler, D. J. (1994). "A bulk data encryption algorithm". Fast Software Encryption. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 809. pp. 127–134. doi:10.1007/3-540-58108-1_16. ISBN 978-3-540-58108-6.
  15. ^ Hopper, A.; Wheeler, J. (October 1979). "Binary Routing Networks". IEEE Transactions on Computers. C-28 (10): 699–703. doi:10.1109/tc.1979.1675237. ISSN 0018-9340. S2CID 20076347.
  16. ^ Hopper, A.; Wheeler, D. (April 1979). "Maintenance of Ring Communication Systems". IEEE Transactions on Communications. 27 (4): 760–761. doi:10.1109/tcom.1979.1094451. ISSN 0090-6778.

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