Daniel Sleator

Daniel Sleator

Daniel Dominic Kaplan Sleator is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. He discovered amortized analysis and he invented many data structures with Robert Tarjan, such as splay trees, link/cut trees, and skew heaps. He also pioneered the theory of link grammars and developed the technique of competitive analysis for online algorithms. Because of his contribution in computer science, he won the Paris Kanellakis Award in 1999.

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