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Problem)
讀到福洛以德巧妙
的演算法,不禁喜不自勝。
福洛以德
(
Robert W
Floyd
1936 – 2001
參見
圖十七
)
是神童,十七歲時
大學畢業,未曾攻讀博士
學位,卻在二十七歲時成
為史丹福大學的正教授,
極受克努斯的推崇。我後
來加入電話公司,進行電
話網路線的最短路線連接
研究,頗受益於克努斯及
福洛以德的理論。
Lazowska
Baer
兩位
教授也是我的英文老師,
批閱學生書面報告的態
度,非常認真。我的英文
很爛,常常抄寫別人的句
子,雜湊為文,背謬矛盾
處處可見,甚至魯魚亥
豕,烏焉成馬。老師很有
耐心的花時間仔細改好,
再告訴我寫作的方式出了
甚麼問題。所以我的英
圖十六:克努斯
(
Donald E. Knuth
b. 1938 ) Turing
Award (1974) Citation: For his major contributions to the
analysis of algorithms and the design of programming
languages, and in particular for his contributions to "The
Art of Computer Programming" through his well
known books in a continuous series by this title
圖十七:福洛以德
(
Robert W Floyd
1936 – 2001)
Turing Award (1978) Citation:For having a clear influence
on methodologies for the creation of efficient and reliable
software, and for helping to found the following important
subfields of computer science: the theory of parsing,
the semantics of programming languages, automatic
program verification, automatic program synthesis, and
analysis of algorithms