Michael Burrows | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1963 (age 61–62)[citation needed] |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | University College London (BSc) University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Known for | Burrows–Wheeler transform[5][6] |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society (2013)[1] SIGOPS Mark Weiser Award (2003)[2] IET Achievement Medal (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Google University of Cambridge Digital Equipment Corporation AltaVista Microsoft |
| Thesis | Efficient Data Sharing (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Wheeler[3][4] |
| Website | research |
Michael Burrows, FRS (born 1963) is a British computer scientist and the creator of the Burrows–Wheeler transform, currently working for Google. Born in Britain, as of 2018 he lives in the United States, although he remains a British citizen.[7][8][9]
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- ^ Burrows, Michael; Wheeler, David J. (1994), A block sorting lossless data compression algorithm, Technical Report 124, Digital Equipment Corporation
- ^ Salson, M.; Lecroq, T.; Léonard, M.; Mouchard, L. (2009). "A four-stage algorithm for updating a Burrows–Wheeler transform". Theoretical Computer Science. 410 (43): 4350. doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2009.07.016.
- ^ Michael Burrows at DBLP Bibliography Server
- ^ Savage, S.; Burrows, M.; Nelson, G.; Sobalvarro, P.; Anderson, T. (1997). "Eraser: A dynamic data race detector for multithreaded programs". ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. 15 (4): 391. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.175.3886. doi:10.1145/265924.265927. S2CID 1492924.
- ^ Abadi, M. N.; Burrows, M.; Lampson, B.; Plotkin, G. (1993). "A calculus for access control in distributed systems" (PDF). ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 15 (4): 706. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.72.3756. doi:10.1145/155183.155225. hdl:1842/207. S2CID 13260508.
