Bernard Chazelle
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Bernard Chazelle | |
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| Born | November 5, 1955 |
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| Alma mater | École des mines de Paris Yale University |
| Occupation | Computer scientist |
| Spouse | Celia Chazelle |
| Children | 2, including Damien |
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| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | David P. Dobkin |
| Doctoral students | Nadia Heninger |
Bernard Chazelle (born November 5, 1955) is a French computer scientist. He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Much of his work is in computational geometry, where he is known for his study of algorithms, such as linear-time triangulation[2] of a simple polygon, as well as major complexity results, such as lower bound techniques based on discrepancy theory.[3] He is also known for his invention of the soft heap data structure and the most asymptotically efficient known deterministic algorithm for finding minimum spanning trees.[4]
Early life
Chazelle was born in Clamart, France, the son of Marie-Claire (née Blanc) and Jean Chazelle.[citation needed] He grew up in Paris, France, where he received his bachelor's degree and master's degree in applied mathematics at the École des mines de Paris in 1977. Then, at the age of 21, he attended Yale University in the United States, where he received his PhD in computer science in 1980 under the supervision of David P. Dobkin.[5]
Career
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Chazelle accepted professional appointments at institutions such as Brown, NEC, Xerox PARC, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Paris institutions École normale supérieure, École polytechnique, Inria, and Collège de France. He is a fellow of the ACM, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and NEC, as well as a member of the European Academy of Sciences. He has also written essays about music and politics.[6]
Personal life
Chazelle is married to Celia Chazelle. He is the father of director Damien Chazelle, the youngest person in history to win an Academy Award for Best Director, and Anna Chazelle, an entertainer.
Works
- The Discrepancy Method: Randomness and Complexity. Cambridge University Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-521-00357-5.
References
- ^ "Bernard Chazelle – Curriculum Vitae" (PDF).
- ^ Chazelle, Bernard (1991), "Triangulating a Simple Polygon in Linear Time", Discrete & Computational Geometry, 6 (3): 485–524, doi:10.1007/BF02574703, ISSN 0179-5376
- ^ Chazelle, Bernard (2000), The Discrepancy Method: Randomness and Complexity, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-00357-5
- ^ Chazelle, Bernard (2000), "A minimum spanning tree algorithm with inverse-Ackermann type complexity", Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, 47 (6): 1028–47, doi:10.1145/355541.355562, MR 1866456, S2CID 6276962
- ^ Bernard Chazelle at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Profile, princeton.edu; accessed February 16, 2017.
External links
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 Discovering the Cosmology of Bach, On Being, November 13, 2014 | |
| Why Natural Algorithms are the Language of the Living World on YouTube, Technion's Computer Science Faculty, April 23, 2013 |
- 1955 births
- Living people
- French computer scientists
- American computer scientists
- Researchers in geometric algorithms
- 1996 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Princeton University faculty
- People from Clamart
- French emigrants to the United States
- Carnegie Mellon University faculty