Philip Spira
Philip Spira · Technology & Engineering
Co-author of the distributed minimum-spanning-tree algorithm; Dijkstra Prize (2004)
2004
United States
Philip Spira is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Co-author of the distributed minimum-spanning-tree algorithm; Dijkstra Prize (2004)
Spira is a computer scientist and co-author, with Robert Gallager and Pierre Humblet, of the celebrated GHS distributed algorithm for minimum-weight spanning trees, a foundational result in distributed computing honored with the 2004 Dijkstra Prize. He is listed among Jewish recipients of the prize by Jewish biographical sources; his personal biography is not widely documented.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize
Co-author of the distributed minimum-spanning-tree algorithm; Dijkstra Prize (2004)
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish recipients of the Dijkstra Prize
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