Truthfully, I had never heard his name until now. But I have been cherishing A* as one of my favourite algorithms ever since I first learned of it. It's take on

Truthfully, I had never heard his name until now. But I have been cherishing A* as one of my favourite algorithms ever since I first learned of it. It's take on injecting sensible heuristics into BFS was an eye-opener for me. In many ways, it represented what I thought algorithms would be, before I studied them, but never encountered during my first class on the subject. Godspeed.