Robert W. Floyd
Computer scientist
Robert W Floyd was a computer scientist. His contributions include the design of the Floyd–Warshall algorithm, which efficiently finds all shortest paths in a graph and his work on parsing; Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm for detecting cycles in a... Wikipedia
Born: June 8, 1936, New York, NY
Died: September 25, 2001 (age 65 years), Stanford, CA
Partner: Christiane Floyd
Education: The University of Chicago (1958) and The University of Chicago (1953)
Notable students: Ronald Rivest, Robert Tarjan, David Plaisted, and more
Awards: Turing Award (1978) and IEEE Computer Society Awards - Computer Pioneer Award (1991)