Oren Patashnik (born 1954) is a computer scientist. He is notable for co-creating BibTeX, and co-writing Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science. He is a researcher at the Center for Communications Research, La Jolla.
Oren Patashnik graduated from Yale University in 1976, and later became a student of the famous Donald Knuth at Stanford University.
While working at Bell Labs in 1980, he used 1500 hours of computer time to prove th...
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Oren Patashnik (born 1954) is a computer scientist. He is notable for co-creating BibTeX, and co-writing Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science. He is a researcher at the Center for Communications Research, La Jolla.
Oren Patashnik graduated from Yale University in 1976, and later became a student of the famous Donald Knuth at Stanford University.
While working at Bell Labs in 1980, he used 1500 hours of computer time to prove that Qubic can always be won by the first player.
In 1985, he co-created BibTeX (a widely used bibliographical format and tool for LaTeX) with Leslie Lamport.
In 1988, he assisted Ronald Graham and Donald Knuth in writing the perennial 1989 college textbook Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science.
In 1990, he got his doctorate in computer science. His thesis paper was about "Optimal Circuit Segmentation for Pseudo-Exhaustive Testing" .
After the 2003 Cedar Fire destroyed 60% of the houses in his immediate neighborhood, his...
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