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Indeed. Saying "Michael fucking Burrows" made me look him up (as intended, I guess :) ) "Michael Burrows (born circa 1963) is widely known as the creator of th
by GFischer 16y ago
Indeed. Saying "Michael fucking Burrows" made me look him up (as intended, I guess :) )
"Michael Burrows (born circa 1963) is widely known as the creator of the Burrows/Wheeler transform. He also was, with Louis Monier, one of the two main creators of AltaVista" (which I guess was the point!). He ironically now works to Google according to Wikipedia.
- basugasubaku 16y agoHe is also an author of the Google Bigtable (http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html http://labs.google.com/papers/bigtable.html) and Chubby (http://labs.google.com/papers/chubby.html http://labs.google.com/papers/chubby.html) papers. In university, we had to read one of his earlier papers, Eraser (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.3256 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.3...).