Nigel Horspool
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British-Canadian computer scientist
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Computer Science
Nigel Horspool's Degrees
- Bachelors Computer Science University of British Columbia
- Masters Computer Science University of British Columbia
- PhD Computer Science University of British Columbia
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Why Is Nigel Horspool Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, R. Nigel Horspool is a retired professor of computer science, formerly of the University of Victoria. He invented the Boyer–Moore–Horspool algorithm, a fast string search algorithm adapted from the Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm. Horspool is co-inventor of dynamic Markov compression and was associate editor and then editor-at-large of the journal Software: Practice and Experience from 2007 to 2017. He is the author of C Programming in the Berkeley UNIX Environment.
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