Michael Burrows (computer scientist)
Michael Burrows | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1963 (age 61–62) [citation needed] |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | University College London (undergraduate) Churchill College, Cambridge (postgraduate) |
| Known for | Burrows–Wheeler transform[3][4] |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Google University of Cambridge Digital Equipment Corporation AltaVista Microsoft |
| Thesis | Efficient Data Sharing (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Wheeler[1][2] |
| Website | royalsociety research |
Michael Burrows, FRS (born 1963) is a British computer scientist and the creator of the Burrows–Wheeler transform currently working for Google. Born in Britain, he now lives in the United States, although remaining a British citizen. [5][6][7]
Education
Burrows did his undergraduate degree in Electronic Engineering with Computer Science at University College London and then completed his PhD in the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, where he was a member of Churchill College, Cambridge.[1] [8]
Career
Upon leaving Cambridge, he worked at the Systems Research Center (SRC) at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) where, with Louis Monier, he was one of the two main creators of AltaVista.[9]
Following Compaq's acquisition of DEC, Burrows worked briefly for Microsoft.[10] Shortly thereafter he went to Google.[11]
After his early work at the University of Cambridge, where he researched micro-kernels and basic matters of security, he went on to enlarge upon that work as systems were deployed at large scale on the Internet.
During his employment at Google, Burrows has studied concurrency and synchronisation, and for programming in the large[clarification needed] – especially in respect the C++ language.[citation needed]
Awards
Burrows was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2013. His nomination read:
"Dr Michael Burrows is distinguished for his pioneering work on web search and indexing. He was one of the designers of the early search engine Altavista. He was also one of the pioneers of the application of formal logic to the verification of security protocols. He has made seminal contributions to many other areas of computer science and engineering ranging from compression through synchronization to performance measurement. He is one of the engineers who led the design of Google's distributed computing infrastructure. "[12]
References
- ^ a b c Burrows, Michael (1988). Efficient Data Sharing (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
- ^ Michael Burrows at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Burrows, Michael; Wheeler, David J. (1994), A block sorting lossless data compression algorithm, Technical Report 124, Digital Equipment Corporation
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- ^ langreiter.com plain, simple: Michael Burrows
- ^ Lu, Crystal (January 12, 2007). "The Genius: Mike Burrows' self-effacing journey through Silicon Valley". The Cardinal Inquirer. Archived from the original on 2008-02-17. Retrieved 2008-07-01.
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