Robert Endre Tarjan is an American computer scientist and mathematician, the discoverer of several graph theory algorithms including the strongly connected components algorithm, and co-inventor of splay trees and Fibonacci heaps. He and John Hopcroft won the 1986 ACM Turing Award.
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Robert Endre Tarjan is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is the discoverer of several graph theory algorithms, including his strongly connected components algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees and Fibonacci heaps.
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April 30, 1948
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In 1986 Hopcroft received the ACM Turing Award (jointly with Robert Tarjan) "for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures."
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