J. W. J. Williams
John William Joseph Williams (2 September 1930[1] – 29 September 2012) was a Welsh-Canadian computer scientist best known for inventing in 1964 heapsort and the binary heap data structure.[2] He was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire[3] and spent the latter part of his career in Canada, moving to Kanata, Ottawa in 1972 and working for Bell-Northern Research and Nortel before retiring in 1995.
References[]
- ^ 1939 England and Wales Register
- ^ Williams, J. W. J. (1964), "Algorithm 232 - Heapsort", Communications of the ACM, 7 (6): 347–348, doi:10.1145/512274.512284
- ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007
External links[]
- "J.W.J. Williams Obituary". Ottawa Citizen. 4 October 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
Categories:
- 1930 births
- 2012 deaths
- British computer scientists
- Canadian computer scientists
- British emigrants to Canada
- British scientist stubs
- Canadian scientist stubs