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Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter

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Nationality
  
Brazilian

Residence
  
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Name
  
Jayme Szwarcfiter

Fields
  
Computer science


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Born
  
5 July 1942Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (
1942-07-05
)

Institutions
  
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Alma mater
  
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Notable awards
  
National Order of Scientific Merit

Education
  
Newcastle University, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Known for
  
Combinatorics, Graph theory

Doctoral advisor
  
Leslie Blackett Wilson

Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter (born July 5, 1942 in Rio de Janeiro) is a computer scientist in Brazil.

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Biography

Szwarcfiter graduated in 1967 in electronic engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). He received his MA in 1971 from COPPE. In 1975 he obtained his PhD in computer science from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, under supervision of Leslie Blackett Wilson. He is currently a professor emeritus at UFRJ. The Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society dedicated a special edition in 2001 to Szwarcfiter's major publications. Among others, he has written joint articles with Donald E. Knuth and Christos Papadimitriou.

Awards

He received the Award of Scientific Merit from the Brazilian Computer Society in 2005. In April 2006 he won the Almirante Álvaro Alberto prize in computer science, one of the most important academic recognitions in Brazil. Szwarcfiter is also one of the recipients of the Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico (National Order of Scientific Merit). In 2011, Prof. Szwarcfiter was elected a Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.

Books

  • Markenzon, Lilian; Szwarcfiter, Jayme Luiz (1997). Estruturas de Dados e seus Algoritmos [Data Structures and their Algorithms] (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: LTC. ISBN 85-2161-014-9. 
  • Szwarcfiter, Jayme Luiz (1988). Grafos e algoritmos computacionais [Graphs and computational algorithms] (in Portuguese). Rio de Janeiro: Campus. ISBN 85-7001-341-8. 

    • References

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