About Raphael Finkel
Born 1951. Raphael Finkel is an American computer scientist, researcher and university teacher.
Raphael Finkel (born 1951) is an American computer scientist and a retired professor at the University of Kentucky. He compiled the first version of the Jargon File. He is the author of An Operating Systems Vade Mecum, a textbook on operating systems, and Advanced Programming Language Design, an introductory book on programming paradigms. Finkel and J.L. Bentley created the data structure called the quadtree.
Biography Finkel was born in Chicago. He entered the University of Chicago, where he earned his BA in mathematics and MA in teaching. He then earned a PhD at Stanford University under the supervision of Vinton Cerf.
Finkel is also an activist for the survival of the Yiddish language, promoting its use and providing fonts, various texts, and tools for writing Yiddish in personal computers.
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Who is Raphael Finkel?
American computer scientist
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Raphael Finkel was born on 24 June 1951 in Chicago.
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Raphael Finkel is a computer scientist, researcher and university teacher.
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