Robert Sedgewick

Computer Scientist

Robert Sedgewick was born in United States on December 20th, 1946 and is the Computer Scientist. At the age of 77, Robert Sedgewick biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
December 20, 1946
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
United States
Age
77 years old
Zodiac Sign
Sagittarius
Profession
Computer Scientist, Programmer, University Teacher, Writer
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Brown University
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Robert Sedgewick Career

Sedgewick returned to Brown to start his academic career as an assistant professor in 1975, with promotion to associate professor in 1980 and full professor in 1983. At Brown, he participated in the founding of the computer science department, in 1979.

In 1985, Sedgewick joined the faculty at Princeton University as founding chair of the Department of Computer Science where he is now the William O. Baker *39 Professor of Computer Science. The first-year courses in computer science that he developed at Princeton are among the most popular courses ever offered at the university. He also pioneered the practice of replacing large live lectures with on-demand online videos.

Throughout his career, he has worked at research institutions outside of academia during summers and sabbatical leaves:

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Robert Sedgewick Awards
  • Flajolet Lecture Prize. AofA—International Meeting on Combinatorial, Probabilistic, and Asymptotic Methods in the Analysis of Algorithms, 2016.
  • Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition. American Mathematical Society, 2019.
  • Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019.