Jon Bentley (computer scientist)

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Jon Bentley
Born
Jon Louis Bentley

(1953-02-20) February 20, 1953 (age 71)
Long Beach, California,[1] U.S.
Alma materUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stanford University
TitleComputer Scientist
Scientific career
InstitutionsAvaya
Thesis Divide and conquer algorithms for closest point problems in multidimensional space  (1976)
Doctoral advisorDonald Ford Stanat
Doctoral students

Jon Louis Bentley (born February 20, 1953) is an American computer scientist who is known for his contributions to computer programming, algorithms and data structure research.

  1. ^ Biography from Bentley, J. L.; Ottmann, T. A. (1979), "Algorithms for reporting and counting geometric intersections" (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Computers, C-28 (9): 643–647, doi:10.1109/TC.1979.1675432, S2CID 1618521, archived from the original on September 22, 2017.