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  Learn more about Daniel Sleator in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Daniel Dominic Kaplan Sleator is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.
With Robert Tarjan, he invented the splay tree data structure and developed the technique of competitive analysis for on-line algorithms.
He is the brother of young adult science fiction author William Sleator.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /d/da/daniel_sleator.html   (145 words)

  
  Daniel Sleator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel Dominic Kaplan Sleator is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.
He is the brother of William Sleator, who writes science fiction for young adults.
Sleator founded and helps manage the Internet Chess Club, one of the largest and most successful commercial chess servers on the Internet.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daniel_Sleator   (99 words)

  
 Grammatical Trigrams: A New Approach to Statistical Language Modeling
Grinberg, J. Lafferty and D. Sleator, A robust parsing algorithm for link grammars, [Abstract], Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, Prague and Karlovy Vary, September 1995, pp.
Lafferty, D. Sleator, and D. Temperley, Grammatical trigrams: A probabilistic model of link grammar, [Abstract], in Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Probabilistic Approaches to Natural Language, Cambridge, MA, October 1992.
Sleator, and D. Temperley, Parsing English with a link grammar, [Abstract], technical report CMU-CS-91-196, Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 1991.
cslu.cse.ogi.edu /nsf/isgw97/reports/sleator.html   (851 words)

  
 25 books by William Sleator
Sleator wasn't an SF writer yet, so it turns out that the explanation is that a junkie has been stealing stuff to feed his habit.
Sleator was big enough on behavior modification through operant conditioning that he co-wrote a non-fiction book about it, making it a natural subject for his initial foray into science fiction.
Sleator actually very rarely goes for the unalloyed happy ending, and this is not one of those times.
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 William Sleator links
Five sixteen-year-old orphans of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in a house of endless stairs as subjects for a psychological experiment on conditioned human response.
Dr. Sleator is Daniel, Tycho, Vicky and William's father.
Dr. Sleator was Daniel, Tycho, Vicky and William's mother.
www.tycho.org /sleator.shtml   (1142 words)

  
 A Short History of FICS and ICC
Daniel Sleator, a professor of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon University, first involved himself with the Internet Chess Server in the fall of 1992.
Sleator brushes aside the accusation that he was greedy.
Sleator thinks the inevitable outcome will be that part of the community, most likely the less serious players, will migrate to the free server.
www.edcollins.com /chess/fics-icc.htm   (2707 words)

  
 William Sleator horror Daniel Bibliography Franz Kafka Boston, Massachusetts science fiction family Thailand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
William Sleator (1945-) is a noted science fiction author who writes primarily for the so-called "junior adult" audience (pre-teens and adolescents), but has also occasionally written for younger audiences.
Sleator lives in Boston, Massachusetts and in Thailand; elements of Thai culture occasionally turn up in his stories.
William Sleator Dutton Children's Books, 189 pages Order this book When I was a kid, my favorite books were those told entirely from a kids'-eye perspective, in which young protagonists faced...
en.powerwissen.com /TsJPG6SRS1Q42Hk4t09akg%3D%3D_William_Sleator.html   (296 words)

  
 Internet Chess Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1992, Daniel Sleator volunteered to take over as head programmer, and began a large overhaul of the server code.
On March 1, 1995, Sleator announced his intentions to commercialize ICS himself, renaming it the Internet Chess Club, or ICC, and charging a yearly membership fee of $49.
There were questions about whether Sleator was right to claim that the ICS was his intellectual property, since he did not code the original server, although he had made substantial improvements to its code.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Internet_Chess_Club   (720 words)

  
 Knight Moves - NETREPRENEURS - WebBusiness Magazine September 1, 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Sleator, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, started fiddling with the code on a CMU-hosted chess server in 1992, adding features and enhancements that at least doubled the size of the original code base.
Sleator calls those opportunities distinctly beneficial to many professional players who might otherwise find it hard to get by on chess alone (especially in the United States).
Sleator and ICC employees also attend the biggest real-world U.S. chess tournaments, where they set up promotional booths and broadcast the moves of the top games in real-time over the ICC.
www.cio.com /archive/webbusiness/090199_net.html?printversion=yes   (1343 words)

  
 CNN - The Internet Chess Club's pay-to-play formula wins on the Web - September 7, 1999
Sleator, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, started fiddling with the code on a CMU-hosted chess server in 1992, adding features and enhancements that at least doubled the size of the original code base.
Sleator calls those opportunities distinctly beneficial to many professional players who might otherwise find it hard to get by on chess alone (especially in the United States).
Sleator and ICC employees also attend the biggest real-world U.S. chess tournaments, where they set up promotional booths and broadcast the moves of the top games in real-time over the ICC.
www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9909/07/chess.ent.idg/index.html   (1321 words)

  
 Forum: Computers and voting -- a dangerous mix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Computer scientists Daniel Sleator and David Eckhardt say that Allegheny County should delay buying newfangled machines until there is no doubt about them
Daniel Sleator is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (sleator@ cs.cmu.edu).
David Eckhardt is a lecturer in computer science at Carnegie Mellon and has served as a judge of elections in Mt. Lebanon since 1997 (David.Eckhardt@ cs.cmu.edu).
www.post-gazette.com /pg/06036/649848.stm   (1003 words)

  
 Hacker bombardment keeps site in check | CNET News.com
They stopped over the weekend, but launched it again today, said Daniel Sleator, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University and president of the Internet Chess Club, a subscription-based chess service.
Sleator said the service has received "thousands of complaints, continuous complaints.
Sleator had tried the same methods as Panix to stop the attacks, but they didn't work for the chess club.
news.com.com /2100-1017-228824.html   (495 words)

  
 ACM: Paris Kanellakis Award 1999
Sleator and Tarjan introduced to characterize their performance, have also had a major impact on the general field of algorithm design and analysis.
Sleator is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Sleator holds a patent on data compression, and has lectured at such conferences as the Seventh International Conference on Graph Theory and the first Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Information in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
www.acm.org /announcements/pk_award_1999.html   (640 words)

  
 .NET Buzz Forum - Professor Sleator
I was doing a search on persistent data structures, and came across this paperby CMU Professor Daniel Sleator in the late 1980s.
Daniel Sleator coinvented the splay treedata structure, which I have used quite often.
Sleator also founded the Internet Chess Club, the most popular chess site on the Internet and one which I was once a member of.
www.artima.com /forums/flat.jsp?forum=152&thread=160950   (174 words)

  
 EMail Msg <9401271025.AA04268@ptpc00.cern.ch>   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Profeessor Sleator brings up a very pertinent question which has also arisen in the World-Wide Web, and which I feel is a very important next step.
Sleator to the head of the table to explian his ideas, and he can drop documents into the overhead projector, or one can drag/drop the chess pieces) We would have a great basis for consutruction of networked VR, graphical MUDDS, and cyberspace would never be the same again.
This would be totally in keeping with web tradition in being a powerful means of communication with an incredibly intuitive interface, and with the ability to grow in sophistication limited only be the imagination, and all based on not very much.
ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca /archives/WWW-TALK/www-talk-1994q1.messages/336.html   (1229 words)

  
 Daniel Sleator -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Daniel Dominic Kaplan Sleator is a professor of (The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures) computer science at (Click link for more info and facts about Carnegie Mellon University) Carnegie Mellon University.
He is the brother of young adult science fiction author (Click link for more info and facts about William Sleator) William Sleator.
Sleator founded and helps manage the (Click link for more info and facts about Internet Chess Club) Internet Chess Club, one of the largest and most successful commercial chess servers on the internet.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/daniel_sleator.htm   (104 words)

  
 Citations: Self-adjusting binary search trees - Sleator, Tarjan (ResearchIndex)
This paper is inspired by the observation that one can in fact achieve a 1 e ra tio against the best static object in hindsight for a wide range of data structure problems via weighted experts techniques from Machine Learning, if computational decision making costs are not considered.
Using an amortized analysis, Sleator and Tarjan have shown that splay trees worst case time performance is at least competitive (within a constant factor) with that of any conventional binary tree, for a sufficiently long sequence of inputs.
Daniel Dominic Sleator and Robert Endre Tarjan, "Selfadjusting binary search trees", Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, vol.
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/334977/0   (3176 words)

  
 Daniel Dominic Kaplan Sleator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Politics: This page was inspired by George W. Bush (the worst president in US history) and the pusillanimous media coverage of him.
Attention Deficit Disorder by Esther Sleator and William Pelham.
Read Oddballs a book by William Sleator about growing up in the sleator family, published by Dutton.
www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/sleator/www/home.html   (66 words)

  
 Daniel Sleator at AllExperts
He discovered amortized analysis and he invented many data structures with Robert Tarjan, such as splay tree, link/cut tree and persistent data structure.
Sleator founded and helps manage the Internet Chess Club, one of the largest and most successful commercial chess servers on the Internet.
He is the brother of William Sleator, who writes science fiction for young adults.
en.allexperts.com /e/d/da/daniel_sleator.htm   (219 words)

  
 Volume 7 "On-Line Algorithms", McGeoch & Sleator, Eds.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
A high point of the workshop was the panel discussion, which featured Richard Karp, Larry Larmore, Mark Manasse, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Daniel Sleator.
We received many positive responses from the participants in the workshop, and we are deeply indebted to DIMACS for giving us the opportunity to organize it.
Daniel Gorenstein, Fred Roberts, Bob Tarjan, Carol Rusnak, and Pat Toci all helped us greatly.
dimacs.rutgers.edu /Volumes/Vol07.html   (310 words)

  
 Descendants - pafg14.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
(Alfred, Daniel O'Connell, Edmond, John, Peter, John, Henry, Henry, Robert, Robert, Thomas, William, Richard) was born on 11 Feb 1927.
Daniel Michael Smithwick (Alfred, Daniel O'Connell, Edmond, John, Peter, John, Henry, Henry, Robert, Robert, Thomas, William, Richard)
Daniel Joseph Smithwick (Joseph Dominick, Daniel, Daniel, John, Peter, John, Henry, Henry, Robert, Robert, Thomas, William, Richard)
www.smithwickfamily.org /kilkenny/paf/pafg14.htm   (184 words)

  
 DBLP: Daniel Dominic Sleator
Daniel Dominic Sleator, Robert Endre Tarjan, William P. Thurston: Rotation Distance, Triangulations, and Hyperbolic Geometry STOC 1986: 122-135
Daniel Dominic Sleator, Robert Endre Tarjan: A Data Structure for Dynamic Trees STOC 1981: 114-122
Samuel W. Bent, Daniel Dominic Sleator, Robert Endre Tarjan: Biased 2-3 Trees FOCS 1980: 248-254
www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Sleator:Daniel_Dominic.html   (539 words)

  
 Daniel Sleator
Daniel Sleator is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.
With Robert Tarjan, he invented the splay tree data structure.
The CMU home page of Daniel Sleator (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sleator/)
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/da/Daniel_Sleator.html   (30 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Daniel Sleator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
A common approach in computer science to problem solving is offline computation.
William Sleator is a noted science fiction author who writes primarily for the so-called junior adult audience (pre-teens and adolescents), but has also occasionally written for younger audiences.
The Internet Chess Club is a commercial Internet site devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Daniel-Sleator   (299 words)

  
 DB&LP: Daniel Dominic Sleator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Samuel W. Bent, Daniel Dominic Sleator, Robert Endre Tarjan: Biased 2-3 Trees.
Daniel Dominic Sleator, Robert Endre Tarjan: A Data Structure for Dynamic Trees.
Daniel Dominic Sleator, Robert Endre Tarjan: Self-Adjusting Binary Trees.
researchsmp2.cc.vt.edu /DB/db/indices/a-tree/s/Sleator:Daniel_Dominic.html   (237 words)

  
 DBLP: Daniel Dominic Sleator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Daniel Dominic Sleator, Robert Endre Tarjan, William P. Thurston: Short Encodings of Evolving Structures.
David Ginat, Daniel Dominic Sleator, Robert Endre Tarjan: A Tight Amortized Bound for Path Reversal.
Daniel Dominic Sleator, Robert Endre Tarjan, William P. Thurston: Rotation Distance, Triangulations, and Hyperbolic Geometry.
www.vldb.org /dblp/db/indices/a-tree/s/Sleator:Daniel_Dominic.html   (462 words)

  
 Daniel Sleator - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Daniel Sleator - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The CMU home page of Daniel Sleator (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sleator/)
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Daniel Sleator contains research on
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Daniel_Sleator   (130 words)

  
 Daniel D. Sleator's anonymous FTP page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
After browsing this, you may wish to GRAB the entire directory in tar format.
Everything here is also in the tech report, except a nice small dictionary, along with an explanation of how it works.
The text of "Oddballs" by William Sleator (the author of "Interstellar Pig", "The Green Futures of Tycho", and may other books) about growing up in the Sleator family.
www.cs.cmu.edu /~sleator/readme.html   (427 words)

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