Nigel Horspool

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R. Nigel Horspool[1] is a professor of computer science at the University of Victoria. He invented the Boyer–Moore–Horspool algorithm, a fast string search algorithm adapted from the Boyer-Moore algorithm. Horspool is co-inventor of Dynamic Markov Compression and is co-editor of the journal Software: Practice and Experience.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Horspool's page at University of Victoria
  2. ^ Software: Practice and Experience


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