Raphael A. Finkel

Raphael Finkel, PhD Stanford 1976, has been a professor of computer science at the University of Kentucky in Lexington since 1987. He was associated with the first work on quad trees, k-d trees, quotient networks, and the Roscoe/Arachne, Charlotte, Yackos, and Unify operating systems. He was involved in developing DIB, a package for dynamically distributing tree-structured computations on an arbitrary number of computers. His research includes tools for Unix system administration, databases, operating systems, distributed algorithms, computational morphology, web-based homework, and answer-set programming applications. He has published over 50 articles in refereed journals and has written two textbooks.