Person Wheeler; David John (1927 - 2004) Wheeler David John 1927 - 2004 British Male Birmingham, Warwickshire, England 09/02/1927 19270209 Cambridge 13/12/2004 20041213

Computer scientist, inventor of the 'closed subroutine' Education: Edward VI Camp Hill Grammar School, Birmingham; Hanley High School, Stoke on Trent; Trinity College, Cambridge; Research Student, Mathematical Laboratory, Cambridge, PhD (1951) Career: Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge (1951-1957), worked on Edsac (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer); Visiting assistant professor, Illinois University (1951-1953) working on Ordvac (Ordnance Discrete Variable Automatic Computer); Assistant Director of Research, Mathematical Laboratory, Cambridge University (1955-1966), working on Titan computer, Reader in Computer Science (1966-1978), Professor of Computer Science (1978-1994, Emeritus); Univeristy of California, Berkeley (1966); Fellow, Darwin College, Cambridge (1967-1994, Emeritus); consultant for Bell Labs (worked for them in 1968) and Digital Equipment Corporation where he worked with Mike Burrows to devise the Burrows-Wheeler Compression Algorithm; invented with Roger Needham cryptography technique called Tea (Tiny Encryption Algorithm); Fellow, British Computing Society (1970); Pioneer Medal "for assembly language programming", Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers; Fellow of the Computer History Museum (October 2003) Son of Arthur and Agnes Wheeler; married (1957) Joyce Blackler Fellow 19/03/1981 54 Obituaries: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 2006 vol 52 pp 437-453, plate, by Martin Campbell-Kelly International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 9 Feb 1927 - 13 Dec 2004 NA4849 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/71446271 e0415017-7fa1-44f0-a7cf-c41729628553