Walter Savitch

Walter John Savitch (February 21, 1943 – February 1, 2021) was an American computer scientist. He was best known for defining the NL (nondeterministic logarithmic space) and for Savitch's theorem. He was a professor at the University of California, San Diego.

Savitch died on February 1, 2021 in San Diego, California from problems caused by Parkinson's disease, aged 77.

References

Other websites
Richard J. Lipton, Savitch’s Theorem. Gives a historical account on how Savitch's Theorem was discovered.

Category:American computer scientists
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Category:Scientists from Berkeley, California
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