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{{Short description|American computer scientist (born 1951)}} | {{Short description|American computer scientist (born 1951)}} | ||
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'''Raphael Finkel''' (born 1951) is an American [[computer scientist]] and a retired<ref name="uky-cs-faculty"> | '''Raphael Finkel''' (born 1951) is an American [[computer scientist]] and a retired<ref name="uky-cs-faculty">{{Cite web |title=Raphael Finkel {{!}} Computer Science |url=https://cs.engr.uky.edu/people/raphael-finkel |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250714000521/https://cs.engr.uky.edu/people/raphael-finkel |archive-date=2025-07-14 |access-date=2025-12-17 |website=cs.engr.uky.edu |language=en}}</ref> professor at the [[University of Kentucky]].<ref name="kentucky-homepage">[http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/ Homepage at the University of Kentucky]</ref> He compiled the first version of the [[Jargon File]].<ref name="jargon">{{Cite web |url=http://chrisdale.name/jargon/ |title=The Jargon File |access-date=October 23, 2014 |archive-date=October 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011073649/http://chrisdale.name/jargon/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> He is the author of ''An Operating Systems Vade Mecum'',<ref name="operating-systems-vade-mecum">[https://web.archive.org/web/20170705054440/ftp://ftp.cs.uky.edu/cs/manuscripts/vade.mecum.2.pdf An Operating Systems Vade Mecum, full 1988 edition] downloadable from the author's website.</ref> a textbook on [[operating system]]s, and ''Advanced Programming Language Design'',<ref name="apld">[http://www.nondot.org/sabre/Mirrored/AdvProgLangDesign/ - Advanced Programming Language Design] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022141742/http://www.nondot.org/sabre/Mirrored/AdvProgLangDesign/ |date=October 22, 2014 }}, full 1996 downloadable edition, linked from the author's website.</ref> an introductory book on [[programming paradigm]]s. Finkel and [[J.L. Bentley]] created the data structure called the [[quadtree]]. | ||
==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates 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.
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 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.[6]
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