Jon Louis Bentley

Jon Louis Bentley

American computer scientist and researcher, credited with the heuristic-based partitioning algorithm k-d tree. Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies. Author of the books Programming Pearls and More Programming Pearls. Received the Dr. Dobb’sExcellence in Programming Award in 2000.

The most beautiful code

In software, the most beautiful code, the most beautiful functions, and the most beautiful programs are sometimes not there at all.

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