David Wheeler (computer scientist)

David John Wheeler FRS (9 February 1927 – 13 December 2004) was a computer scientist. The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, known simply as The Royal Society, is a Learned society for science that was founded in 1660 Events 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. Year 1927 ( MCMXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1294 - Saint Celestine V abdicates the papacy after only five months Celestine hoped to return to his previous life "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " A computer scientist is a person that has acquired knowledge of Computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application He was born in Birmingham and gained a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge to read mathematics, graduating in 1948. Birmingham ( ˈbɜːmɪŋəm Ber -ming-um Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He completed the world's first PhD in computer science in 1951. Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January

His contributions to the field included work on the EDSAC and the Burrows-Wheeler transform. Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator ( EDSAC) was an early British Computer. The Burrows-Wheeler transform ( BWT, also called block-sorting compression) is an Algorithm used in Data compression techniques such as Along with Maurice Wilkes and Stanley Gill he is credited with the invention of the subroutine (which they referred to as the closed subroutine), because of which jump to subroutine instruction is often called Wheeler Jump. Professor Stanley Gill (1926 - 1975 was a British Computer scientist credited along with Maurice Wilkes and David Wheeler, with the invention In Computer science, a subroutine ( function, method, procedure, or subprogram) is a portion of code within a larger In cryptography, he was the designer of WAKE and the co-designer of the TEA and XTEA encryption algorithms together with Roger Needham. Cryptography (or cryptology; from Greek grc κρυπτός kryptos, "hidden secret" and grc γράφω gráphō, "I write" In Cryptography, WAKE is a Stream cipher designed by David Wheeler in 1993. In Cryptography, the Tiny Encryption Algorithm (TEA is a Block cipher notable for its simplicity of description and Implementation (typically a few In Cryptography, XTEA ( eXtended TEA) is a Block cipher designed to correct weaknesses in TEA. Roger Michael Needham CBE FREng FRS ( 9 February, 1935 &ndash 1 March, 2003) was a British Computer

Wheeler married Joyce Blackler in August 1957, who herself used EDSAC for her own mathematical investigations as a research student from 1955. He became a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge in 1964 and formally retired in 1994, although he continued to be an active member of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory until his death. A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the The Computer Laboratory is the Computer science department of the University of Cambridge. In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational Computing society In 2003 he was a Computer History Museum Fellow Award recipient. The Computer History Museum is a Museum established in 1996 in Mountain View California, when The Computer Museum (TCM in Boston)

Wheeler is often quoted as saying "Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. In Computer programming, indirection is the ability to reference something using a name reference or container instead of the value itself But that usually will create another problem. " Another quotation attributed to him is "Compatibility means deliberately repeating other people's mistakes. "

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