Peter van Emde Boas
Peter van Emde Boas (* around 1944) is a Dutch computer scientist . He is a professor at the University of Amsterdam .
Peter van Emde Boas received his doctorate in 1974 from the University of Amsterdam under Adriaan van Wijngaarden (Abstract Resource-Bound Classes). From 1977 he was a lecturer and later professor for theoretical computer science in Amsterdam . In 2009 he retired .
The Van Emde Boas priority queue (also Van Emde Boas Baum, vEB Baum) is named after him.
Arjen Lenstra is one of his PhD students .
Fonts
- Machine Models and Simulations . In: Jan van Leeuwen (Ed.): Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science. Volume A: Algorithms and Complexity . Elsevier / MIT Press, 1990, pp. 3-66.
- Editor with Renate Bartsch, Johan van Benthem : Semantics and contextual Expression . Doris Publications, 1989.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter van Emde Boas in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Peter van Emde Boas Preserving order in a forest in less than logarithmic time , Proceedings of the 16th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, 1975, pp. 75-84
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Emde Boas, Peter van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1944 |