Acclaimed Computer Scientists Join Dr. Dobb's Journal

Posted on March 2, 1998

Dr. Dobb's Journal magazine has announced that acclaimed computer scientists Jon Bentley and Dennis Shasha have joined the publication as contributing editors. Bentley and Shasha premier in Dr. Dobb's Journal's April 1998 issue, which focuses on algorithms. Bentley will regularly contribute to Dr. Dobb's Journal's popular "Algorithms Alley" column, while Shasha launches a new column entitled "Dr. Ecco's Omniheurist Corner."

Bentley, an expert on algorithms and member of the technical staff at the Computer Science Research Center at Bell Labs, is known for his "Programming Pearls" column, which he wrote for the Communications of the ACM from 1983 to 1987, as well as his subsequent books Programming Pearls (ACM, 1985) and More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder (ACM, 1988). In his first contribution to Dr. Dobb's Journal, Bentley teams up with noted computer scientist Robert Sedgewick in writing an article on efficient data search algorithms.

Shasha, a professor of computer science at New York University, is creator of the popular Dr. Ecco character, a computational/mathematical detective whose adventures are chronicled in The Puzzling Adventures of Dr. Ecco (Dover Publications, 1998) and Codes, Puzzles, and Conspiracy (W.H. Freeman & Co., 1992). An expert on databases and author of Database Tuning: A Principled Approach (Prentice Hall, 1992) and (co-authored with Cathy Lazere) Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists, Second Edition (Springer Verlag, 1998), Shasha does research in biological computing, parallel computing, information tailoring for complex documents, and real-time scheduling.

Algorithms form the underlying principles and methodologies of all computer software. Computer science and programming could accurately be summed up as the study and implementation of algorithms -- a topic both Bentley and Shasha are acknowledged experts in. Other articles of note in the April 1998 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal include visual cryptography, protocol engineering, and interfacing Java to the PalmPilot.



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