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</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Daniel Sleator</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">10 December 1953<span style="display:none">&nbsp;(<span class="dtstart bday">1953-12-10</span>)</span> (age&nbsp;71)<br><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="St._Louis" title="St. Louis">St. Louis</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma&nbsp;mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="University_of_Illinois_at_Urbana%E2%80%93Champaign" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign">University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign</a>, <a href="Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">Leon Sleator</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Paris_Kanellakis_Award" title="Paris Kanellakis Award">Paris Kanellakis Award</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(1999)</span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="Computer_science" title="Computer science">Computer science</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Carnegie_Mellon_University" title="Carnegie Mellon University">Carnegie Mellon University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Doctoral_advisor" title="Doctoral advisor">Doctoral advisor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Robert_Tarjan" title="Robert Tarjan">Robert Tarjan</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2">
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<p><b>Daniel Dominic Kaplan Sleator</b> (born 10 December 1953) is a professor of <a href="Computer_science" title="Computer science">computer science</a> at <a href="Carnegie_Mellon_University" title="Carnegie Mellon University">Carnegie Mellon University</a>, <a href="Pittsburgh" title="Pittsburgh">Pittsburgh</a>, United States. In 1999, he won the <a href="Association_for_Computing_Machinery" title="Association for Computing Machinery">ACM</a> <a href="Paris_Kanellakis_Award" title="Paris Kanellakis Award">Paris Kanellakis Award</a> (jointly with <a href="Robert_Tarjan" title="Robert Tarjan">Robert Tarjan</a>) for the <a href="Splay_tree" title="Splay tree">splay tree</a> data structure.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>He was one of the pioneers in <a href="Amortized_analysis" title="Amortized analysis">amortized analysis</a> of algorithms, early examples of which were the analyses of the <a href="Move-to-front_transform" title="Move-to-front transform">move-to-front</a> heuristic,<sup id="cite_ref-MTF_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MTF-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="Splay_tree" title="Splay tree">splay trees</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-splay_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-splay-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He invented many <a href="Data_structures" class="mw-redirect" title="Data structures">data structures</a> with <a href="Robert_Tarjan" title="Robert Tarjan">Robert Tarjan</a>, such as <a href="Splay_tree" title="Splay tree">splay trees</a>, <a href="Link/cut_tree" title="Link/cut tree">link/cut trees</a>, and <a href="Skew_heap" title="Skew heap">skew heaps</a>.
</p><p>The Sleator and Tarjan paper on the move-to-front heuristic<sup id="cite_ref-MTF_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MTF-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> first suggested the idea of comparing an <a href="Online_algorithm" title="Online algorithm">online algorithm</a> to an optimal offline algorithm, for which the term <a href="Competitive_analysis_(online_algorithm)" title="Competitive analysis (online algorithm)">competitive analysis</a> was later coined in a paper of <a href="Anna_Karlin" title="Anna Karlin">Karlin</a>, Manasse, Rudolph, and Sleator.<sup id="cite_ref-snoopy_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-snoopy-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sleator also developed the theory of <a href="Link_grammar" title="Link grammar">link grammars</a>, and the Serioso music analyzer for analyzing meter and harmony in written music.
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<p>Sleator was born to William Warner Sleator, Jr., a professor of physiology and <a href="Biophysics" title="Biophysics">biophysics</a>, and Esther Kaplan Sleator, a pediatrician who did pioneering research on <a href="Attention_deficit_disorder" class="mw-redirect" title="Attention deficit disorder">attention deficit disorder</a> (ADD).<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytobit-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is the younger brother of <a href="William_Sleator" title="William Sleator">William Sleator</a>, who wrote science fiction for young adults.
</p><p>Sleator commercialized the volunteer-based <a href="Internet_Chess_Server" title="Internet Chess Server">Internet Chess Server</a> into the <a href="Internet_Chess_Club" title="Internet Chess Club">Internet Chess Club</a> despite outcry from fellow volunteers. The ICS has since become one of the most successful internet-based commercial chess servers.
</p><p>From 2003 to 2008, Sleator co-hosted the progressive talk show <i>Left Out</i> on <a href="WRCT" title="WRCT">WRCT-FM</a> with <a href="Carnegie_Mellon_University" title="Carnegie Mellon University">Carnegie Mellon University</a> School of Computer Science faculty member <a href="Robert_Harper_(computer_scientist)" title="Robert Harper (computer scientist)">Bob Harper</a>.
</p><p>He is also an active member of the competitive programming platform <a href="Codeforces" title="Codeforces">Codeforces</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>American Men and Women of Science</i>, Thomson Gale, 2004</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.acm.org/announcements/pk_award_1999.html">Citation for Sleator and Tarjan Kanellakis Award</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120211141406/http://www.acm.org/announcements/pk_award_1999.html">Archived</a> 2012-02-11 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span>
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<li id="cite_note-MTF-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-MTF_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-MTF_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">
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</style><cite id="CITEREFSleatorTarjan1985" class="citation cs2">Sleator, Daniel D.; Tarjan, Robert E. (1985), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sleator/papers/amortized-efficiency.pdf">"Amortized efficiency of list update and paging rules"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>, <i><a href="Communications_of_the_ACM" title="Communications of the ACM">Communications of the ACM</a></i>, <b>28</b> (2): <span class="nowrap">202–</span>208, <a href="CiteSeerX_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="CiteSeerX (identifier)">CiteSeerX</a>&nbsp;<span class="id-lock-free" title="Freely accessible"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.367.6317">10.1.1.367.6317</a></span>, <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F2786.2793">10.1145/2786.2793</a>, <a href="S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:2494305">2494305</a></cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-splay-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-splay_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFSleatorTarjan1985" class="citation cs2">Sleator, Daniel D.; Tarjan, Robert E. (1985), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sleator/papers/self-adjusting.pdf">"Self-Adjusting Binary Search Trees"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>, <i><a href="Journal_of_the_ACM" title="Journal of the ACM">Journal of the ACM</a></i>, <b>32</b> (3): <span class="nowrap">652–</span>686, <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1145%2F3828.3835">10.1145/3828.3835</a>, <a href="S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:1165848">1165848</a></cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-snoopy-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-snoopy_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFKarlinManasseRudolphSleator1988" class="citation cs2">Karlin, Anna R.; Manasse, Mark S.; Rudolph, Larry; Sleator, Daniel D. (1988), "Competitive snoopy caching", <i><a href="Algorithmica" title="Algorithmica">Algorithmica</a></i>, <b>3</b> (1): <span class="nowrap">79–</span>119, <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF01762111">10.1007/BF01762111</a>, <a href="MR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="MR (identifier)">MR</a>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=0925479">0925479</a>, <a href="S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:33446072">33446072</a></cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-nytobit-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-nytobit_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFFox2011" class="citation news cs1">Fox, Margalit (August 6, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/books/william-sleator-science-fiction-writer-for-young-adults-dies-at-66.html">"William Sleator, Fantasy Writer for Young Adults, Dies at 66"</a>. <i><a href="The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2011-08-07</span></span>.</cite></span>
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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://codeforces.com/profile/Darooha">"Darooha"</a>. <i>Codeforces</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2020-04-13</span></span>.</cite></span>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sleator/">The CMU home page of Daniel Sleator</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chessclub.com/">The Internet Chess Club</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061211014220/http://awards.acm.org/kanellakis/citation.cfm?id=1104092&amp;srt=all&amp;aw=147&amp;ao=KANELLAK">Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.leftout.info">Left Out radio show</a></li></ul>
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</style><div id="Winners_of_the_Paris_Kanellakis_Theory_and_Practice_Award84" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Winners of the <a href="Paris_Kanellakis_Award" title="Paris Kanellakis Award">Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">
<ul><li><a href="Leonard_Adleman" title="Leonard Adleman">Adleman</a>, <a href="Whitfield_Diffie" title="Whitfield Diffie">Diffie</a>, <a href="Martin_Hellman" title="Martin Hellman">Hellman</a>, <a href="Ralph_Merkle" title="Ralph Merkle">Merkle</a>, <a href="Ron_Rivest" title="Ron Rivest">Rivest</a>, <a href="Adi_Shamir" title="Adi Shamir">Shamir</a> (1996)</li>
<li><a href="Abraham_Lempel" title="Abraham Lempel">Lempel</a>, <a href="Yaakov_Ziv" class="mw-redirect" title="Yaakov Ziv">Ziv</a> (1997)</li>
<li><a href="Randal_Bryant" title="Randal Bryant">Bryant</a>, <a href="Edmund_M._Clarke" title="Edmund M. Clarke">Clarke</a>, <a href="E._Allen_Emerson" title="E. Allen Emerson">Emerson</a>, <a href="Kenneth_L._McMillan" title="Kenneth L. McMillan">McMillan</a> (1998)</li>
<li>, <a href="Robert_Tarjan" title="Robert Tarjan">Tarjan</a> (1999)</li>
<li><a href="Narendra_Karmarkar" title="Narendra Karmarkar">Karmarkar</a> (2000)</li>
<li><a href="Eugene_Myers" title="Eugene Myers">Myers</a> (2001)</li>
<li><a href="Peter_Franaszek" title="Peter Franaszek">Franaszek</a> (2002)</li>
<li><a href="Gary_Miller_(computer_scientist)" title="Gary Miller (computer scientist)">Miller</a>, <a href="Michael_O._Rabin" title="Michael O. Rabin">Rabin</a>, <a href="Robert_M._Solovay" title="Robert M. Solovay">Solovay</a>, <a href="Volker_Strassen" title="Volker Strassen">Strassen</a> (2003)</li>
<li><a href="Yoav_Freund" title="Yoav Freund">Freund</a>, <a href="Robert_Schapire" title="Robert Schapire">Schapire</a> (2004)</li>
<li><a href="Gerard_J._Holzmann" title="Gerard J. Holzmann">Holzmann</a>, Kurshan, <a href="Moshe_Vardi" title="Moshe Vardi">Vardi</a>, <a href="Pierre_Wolper" title="Pierre Wolper">Wolper</a> (2005)</li>
<li><a href="Robert_Brayton" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Brayton">Brayton</a> (2006)</li>
<li><a href="Bruno_Buchberger" title="Bruno Buchberger">Buchberger</a> (2007)</li>
<li><a href="Corinna_Cortes" title="Corinna Cortes">Cortes</a>, <a href="Vladimir_Vapnik" title="Vladimir Vapnik">Vapnik</a> (2008)</li>
<li><a href="Mihir_Bellare" title="Mihir Bellare">Bellare</a>, <a href="Phillip_Rogaway" title="Phillip Rogaway">Rogaway</a> (2009)</li>
<li><a href="Kurt_Mehlhorn" title="Kurt Mehlhorn">Mehlhorn</a> (2010)</li>
<li><a href="Hanan_Samet" title="Hanan Samet">Samet</a> (2011)</li>
<li><a href="Andrei_Broder" title="Andrei Broder">Broder</a>, <a href="Moses_Charikar" title="Moses Charikar">Charikar</a>, <a href="Piotr_Indyk" title="Piotr Indyk">Indyk</a> (2012)</li>
<li>Blumofe, <a href="Charles_E._Leiserson" title="Charles E. Leiserson">Leiserson</a> (2013)</li>
<li><a href="James_Demmel" title="James Demmel">Demmel</a> (2014)</li>
<li><a href="Michael_Luby" title="Michael Luby">Luby</a> (2015)</li>
<li><a href="Amos_Fiat" title="Amos Fiat">Fiat</a>, <a href="Moni_Naor" title="Moni Naor">Naor</a> (2016)</li>
<li><a href="Scott_Shenker" title="Scott Shenker">Shenker</a> (2017)</li>
<li><a href="Pavel_A._Pevzner" title="Pavel A. Pevzner">Pevzner</a> (2018)</li>
<li><a href="Noga_Alon" title="Noga Alon">Alon</a>, <a href="Phillip_Gibbons" title="Phillip Gibbons">Gibbons</a>, <a href="Yossi_Matias" title="Yossi Matias">Matias</a>, <a href="Mario_Szegedy" title="Mario Szegedy">Szegedy</a> (2019)</li>
<li>Azar, <a href="Andrei_Broder" title="Andrei Broder">Broder</a>, <a href="Anna_Karlin" title="Anna Karlin">Karlin</a>, <a href="Michael_Mitzenmacher" title="Michael Mitzenmacher">Mitzenmacher</a>, <a href="Eli_Upfal" title="Eli Upfal">Upfal</a> (2020)</li>
<li><a href="Avrim_Blum" title="Avrim Blum">Blum</a>, <a href="Irit_Dinur" title="Irit Dinur">Dinur</a>, <a href="Cynthia_Dwork" title="Cynthia Dwork">Dwork</a>, <a href="Frank_McSherry" title="Frank McSherry">McSherry</a>, <a href="Kobbi_Nissim" title="Kobbi Nissim">Nissim</a>, <a href="Adam_D._Smith" title="Adam D. Smith">Smith</a> (2021)</li>
<li><a href="Michael_Burrows_(computer_scientist)" title="Michael Burrows (computer scientist)">Burrows</a>, Ferragina, Manzini (2022)</li></ul>
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