American computer scientist
Edward M. Reingold (born 1945) is a computer scientist active in the fields of algorithms , data structures , graph drawing , and calendrical calculations .
In 1996 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery .[ 1]
In 2000 he retired from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and was a professor of computer science and applied mathematics at the Illinois Institute of Technology until his retirement in 2019.[ 2]
Works
He has co-authored the standard text on calendrical calculations, Calendrical Calculations , with Nachum Dershowitz .[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
In 1981 he was the co-author, with John Tilford , of the canonical paper "Tidier Drawings of Trees" which described a method, now known as the Reingold-Tilford algorithm , to produce more aesthetically pleasing drawing of binary (and by extension, m-ary) trees [1] .
References
^ ACM Fellow Award Citation , accessed 2011-09-19.
^ Faculty listing , Computer Science Dept., Illinois Institute of Technology, accessed 2015-08-23.
^ Edward M. Reingold and Nachum Dershowitz. Calendrical Calculations . Cambridge University Press ; 3 edition (December 10, 2007). ISBN 978-0-521-88540-9
^ Review of Calendrical Calculations by E. G. Richards (1998), Nature 391 : 33โ34, doi :10.1038/34083 .
^ Review of Calendrical Calculations by Robert Poole (1999), The British Journal for the History of Science 32 (1): 116โ118, JSTOR 4027975 .
^ Review of Calendrical Calculations by N. M. Swerdlow (1998), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 20 (3): 78, doi :10.1109/MAHC.1998.707580 .
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