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Citizenship
  
United Kingdom

Nationality
  
British

Influenced by
  
Roger Needham

Doctoral advisor
  
David Wheeler

Fields
  
Computer Science

Name
  
Michael Burrows


Institutions
  
GoogleUniversity of CambridgeDigital Equipment CorporationAltaVistaMicrosoft

Thesis
  
Efficient Data Sharing (1988)

Similar People
  
David Wheeler, Sergey Brin, David Drummond, Larry Page, Eric Schmidt

Residence
  
United States of America

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Michael Burrows, FRS (born 1963) is a British computer scientist and the creator of the Burrows–Wheeler transform currently working for Google. Born in Britain, he now lives in the United States, although remaining a British citizen.

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Education

Burrows studied Electronic Engineering with Computer Science at University College London and then completed his PhD in the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, where he was a postgraduate student of Churchill College, Cambridge supervised by David Wheeler.

Career

Upon leaving Cambridge, he moved to USA and worked at the Systems Research Center (SRC) at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) where, with Louis Monier, he was one of the two main creators of AltaVista.

Following Compaq's acquisition of DEC, Burrows worked briefly for Microsoft preventing spamming. Shortly thereafter he went to Google.

After his early work at the University of Cambridge, where he researched microkernels and basic matters of security, he went on to enlarge upon that work as systems were deployed at large scale on the Internet.

During his employment at Google, Burrows has studied concurrency and synchronisation, and for programming in the large – especially with respect to the C++ language.

Awards and honours

Burrows was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2013. His nomination reads:

References

Michael Burrows Wikipedia


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