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Cheers.—[[User:InternetArchiveBot|'''<span style="color:darkgrey;font-family:monospace">InternetArchiveBot</span>''']] <span style="color:green;font-family:Rockwell">([[User talk:InternetArchiveBot|Report bug]])</span> 14:55, 14 July 2017 (UTC)
== Inventor of BWT? ==
I just removed (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Burrows_%28computer_scientist%29&diff=1289240977&oldid=1278470509) the uncited claim that Burrows is the "creator of the Burrows–Wheeler transform". I note that on page 1 of their paper (A Block-sorting Lossless
Data Compression Algorithm), Burrows and Wheeler state that it was solely Wheeler, not Burrows, who invented BWT:
{{tq|The algorithm described here was discovered by one of the authors (Wheeler) in
1983 while he was working at AT&T Bell Laboratories, though it has not previously
been published.}}
Just in case - am I missing anything? I do note that according to Wikipedia Burrows was Wheeler's PhD student, and certainly I have heard outrageous stories from academia about advisors and profs poaching credit for students' work. Has there ever been a suggestion (that I've failed to stumble across in my reading about BWT) that such an injustice happened here, and that Wheeler somehow coerced Burrows into co-authoring an article that falsely credited Wheeler for Burrows's work... or was this simply an error in the article, as I assume?
(If there's some scandal I've missed, we should discuss it and cite sources to substantiate it. But I've not personally seen any hint in my reading of any such thing nor of any ill will ever existing between the two men.) [[User:ExplodingCabbage|ExplodingCabbage]] ([[User talk:ExplodingCabbage|talk]]) 10:27, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
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