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Robert Endre Tarjan

American computer scientist
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Robert Endre Tarjan (born April 30, 1948, Pomona, California, U.S.) is a computer scientist and co-winner of the 1986 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for “fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures.” Tarjan invented or co-invented some of the most efficient known algorithms and data structures for problems over a wide range of applications. Tarjan earned a bachelor’s degree (1969) in mathematics from the California Institute...

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