Daniel Sleator
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Daniel Dominic Kaplan Sleator is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. With Robert Tarjan, he invented the splay tree data structure, pioneered the theory of link grammars and developed the technique of competitive analysis for online algorithms. He is the brother of William Sleator, who writes science fiction for young adults.
Sleator founded and helps manage the Internet Chess Club, one of the largest and most successful commercial chess servers on the Internet.
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