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Burrows is also responsible for the Burrows Wheeler Transform, Bigtable, Dapper and Chubby, among others.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_tran...

> The Burrows-Wheeler transform is an algorithm used to prepare data for use with data compression techniques such as bzip2


Also a really nice person. And funny.




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