Robert Sedgewick is a computer science

Computer science

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 professor at Princeton University

Princeton University

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 and a member of the board of directors of Adobe Systems

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Sedgewick completed his Ph.D.

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 in 1975 under the supervision of Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

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 at Stanford

Stanford University

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. His thesis was about the quicksort algorithm. In 1975–85 he served on the faculty of Brown University

Brown University

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Sedgewick was the founding Chairman (1985) of the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University

Princeton University

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 and is currently still a Professor of Computer Science at Princeton. He was a visiting researcher at Xerox PARC

Xerox PARC

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, Institute for Defense Analyses

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 and INRIA.

In 1997 Robert Sedgewick was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery

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 for his seminal work in the mathematical analysis of algorithms

Analysis of algorithms

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 and pioneering research in algorithm animation.

Robert Sedgewick is the author of a well-known book series Algorithms, published by Addison-Wesley

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. The first edition of the book was published in 1983 and contained code in Pascal

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. Subsequent editions used C

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, C++

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, Modula-3

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, and Java

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