Torsten Suel is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

 under the supervision of Greg Plaxton. His most heavily cited publications are for his work on an implementation of bulk synchronous parallel

Bulk synchronous parallel

The Bulk Synchronous Parallel abstract computer is a bridging model for designing parallel algorithms. A bridging model "is intended neither as a hardware nor a programming model but something in between" . It serves a purpose similar to the Parallel Random Access Machine model. BSP differs from...

 computation, streaming algorithm

Streaming algorithm

In computer science, streaming algorithms are algorithms forprocessing data streams in which the input is presented as a sequence ofitems and can be examined in only a few passes...

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Histogram

In statistics, a histogram is a graphical representation showing a visual impression of the distribution of data. It is an estimate of the probability distribution of a continuous variable and was first introduced by Karl Pearson...

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Join (SQL)

An SQL join clause combines records from two or more tables in a database. It creates a set that can be saved as a table or used as is. A JOIN is a means for combining fields from two tables by using values common to each. ANSI standard SQL specifies four types of JOINs: INNER, OUTER, LEFT, and RIGHT...

 operations in database

Database

A database is an organized collection of data for one or more purposes, usually in digital form. The data are typically organized to model relevant aspects of reality , in a way that supports processes requiring this information...

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Dominating set

In graph theory, a dominating set for a graph G =  is a subset D of V such that every vertex not in D is joined to at least one member of D by some edge...

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Web crawler

A Web crawler is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner or in an orderly fashion. Other terms for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, Web spiders, Web robots, or—especially in the FOAF community—Web scutters.This process is called Web...

algorithms.