Robert Sedgewick (computer scientist)
…with some of the early personal computers The Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) in France, in collaboration with Philippe Flajolet. Sedgewick developed red–black trees (with Leonidas J. Guibas), ternary search trees (with Jon Bentley), and pairing heaps (with R. E. Tarjan and Michael…