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A nice reversal of the meme where "the supervising professor takes all the credit and the army of grad students do the real work".
by dmurray 3y ago
A nice reversal of the meme where "the supervising professor takes all the credit and the army of grad students do the real work".
- amemisoglu 3y agoThis algorithm is known as Huffman encoding.
- yccs27 3y agoYes, and it's named after graduate student Huffman (at the time) instead of after his supervisor/teacher Fano.
- bsenftner 3y agoWhich strikes me as either rare honesty, or an example of how our values have slid over time because today the professor would claim the algorithm for himself, and the student would get a B- for some spelling mistake in his write up, none the wiser the professor it making fame from their work.