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Technology & Engineering

Stephen Warshall

Who

Stephen Warshall · Technology & Engineering

What

Computer & information scientist

When

1935, New York City, United States — 2006, Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Stephen Warshall is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Computer & information scientist

How & why

Stephen Warshall was an American computer scientist best known for Warshall's algorithm, which computes the transitive closure of a directed graph and, together with Floyd's shortest-path method, is taught as the Floyd–Warshall algorithm. He worked in operating systems, compilers and language design, founding Massachusetts Computer Associates. He is listed among Jewish computer and information scientists on Jinfo.

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Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS

Contributions & Sources

Computer & information scientist

Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS