J. W. J. Williams

John William Joseph Williams (1929 or 1930 - September 29, 2012) was a British-born computer scientist best known for inventing in 1964 heapsort and the binary heap data structure.[1] He spent the latter part of his career in Canada, moving to Ottawa in 1972 and working for Bell-Northern Research and Nortel before retiring in 1995.

References

  1. ↑ Williams, J. W. J. (1964), "Algorithm 232 - Heapsort", Communications of the ACM, 7 (6): 347–348, doi:10.1145/512274.512284
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