Raphael Finkel

Raphael Finkel (born 1951) is an American computer scientist and a retired[1] professor at the University of Kentucky.[2] He compiled the first version of the Jargon File.[3] He is the author of An Operating Systems Vade Mecum,[4] a textbook on operating systems, and Advanced Programming Language Design,[5] an introductory book on programming paradigms. Finkel and J.L. Bentley created the data structure called the quadtree.

  1. ^ University of Kentucky Department of Computer Science faculty directory
  2. ^ Homepage at the University of Kentucky
  3. ^ The Jargon File
  4. ^ An Operating Systems Vade Mecum, full 1988 edition downloadable from the author's website.
  5. ^ - Advanced Programming Language Design Archived October 22, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, full 1996 downloadable edition, linked from the author's website.