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Remove claim Burrows created BWT; Burrows and Wheeler explicitly contradict this on page 1 of their paper: "The algorithm described here was discovered by one of the authors (Wheeler) in 1983". Also remove claim that Burrows currently works at Google; our sources for this are old and if we have his DOB right he is quite possibly retired by now. Add fact that he founded AltaVista to the lead - that seems to me like by far the most important fact about him, yet was previously buried!
I guess we should at least mention BWT even if he didn't invent it.
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}}'''Michael Burrows''', [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (born 1963) is a British computer scientist and, one of the creators of [[AltaVista]], and co-author of the paper that first described the [[Burrows-Wheeler Transform]]. Born in Britain, as of 2018 he lives in the United States, although he remains a British citizen.<ref name="dblp">{{DBLP|name=Michael Burrows}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Savage | first1 = S. | last2 = Burrows | first2 = M. | last3 = Nelson | first3 = G. | last4 = Sobalvarro | first4 = P. | last5 = Anderson | first5 = T. | title = Eraser: A dynamic data race detector for multithreaded programs | doi = 10.1145/265924.265927 | journal = ACM Transactions on Computer Systems | volume = 15 | issue = 4 | pages = 391 | year = 1997 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.175.3886 | s2cid = 1492924 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Abadi | first1 = M. N. | authorlink1 = Martín Abadi| last2 = Burrows | first2 = M. | authorlink2 = Michael Burrows (computer scientist)| last3 = Lampson | first3 = B. | authorlink3 = Butler Lampson| last4 = Plotkin | first4 = G. | authorlink4 = Gordon Plotkin| title = A calculus for access control in distributed systems | doi = 10.1145/155183.155225 | journal = ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems | volume = 15 | issue = 4 | pages = 706 | year = 1993 | hdl = 1842/207 | url = http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/gdp/publications/Calculus_for_Access_Control.pdf| citeseerx = 10.1.1.72.3756 | s2cid = 13260508 }}</ref>
 
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