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Name
  
Raphael Finkel


Role
  
Computer scientist

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Books
  
Advanced Programming Language Design

Education
  
University of Chicago, Stanford University

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

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Biography

Finkel was born in Chicago. He entered the University of Chicago, where he earned his BA in mathematics and MA in teaching. He then earned a PhD at Stanford University under the supervision of Vinton Cerf.

Finkel obtained a position at the University of Wisconsin–Madison after completing his doctorate, and remained there from 1976 until 1987, when he took a position at the University of Kentucky.

Finkel is also an activist for the survival of the Yiddish language, promoting its use and providing fonts, various texts, and tools for writing Yiddish in personal computers.

References

Raphael Finkel Wikipedia