Ellis Horowitz

Ellis Horowitz
Photograph of Ellis Horowitz in November 2012
Born (1944-02-11) February 11, 1944 (age 80)
New York City, United States
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
Brooklyn College
Known forData structures and algorithms
Scientific career
FieldsData structures
InstitutionsUniversity of Southern California
Doctoral advisorGeorge E. Collins
Doctoral studentsSartaj Sahni, Alfons Kemper

Ellis Horowitz is an American computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). Horowitz is best known for his computer science textbooks on data structures and algorithms, co-authored with Sartaj Sahni. At USC, Horowitz was chairman of the Computer Science Department from 1990 to 1999. During his tenure he significantly improved relations between Computer Science and the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), hiring senior faculty and establishing the department's first industrial advisory board.[1] From 1983 to 1993 with Lawrence Flon he co-founded Quality Software Products which designed and built UNIX application software. Their products included two spreadsheet programs, Q-calc and eXclaim, a project management system, MasterPlan, and a floating license server, Maitre D. The company was sold to Island Graphics.[2]

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