Computer Scientist Jon Bentley Joins Dr. Dobb's Journal

Murray Hill, N.J. (September, 1998) -- Acclaimed Bell Labs computer scientists Jon Bentley is now a contributing editor to Dr. Dobb's Journal.

Bentley premiered in Dr. Dobb's Journal's April 1998 issue, which focuses on algorithms.

Bentley, an expert on algorithms and member of the technical staff at the Computer Science Research Center at Bell Labs, will regularly contribute to Dr. Dobb's Journal's popular "Algorithms Alley" column.

Bentley is known for his "Programming Pearls" column, which he wrote for the Communications of the ACM from 1983 to 1987, as well as his subsequent books Programming Pearls (ACM, 1985) and More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder (ACM, 1988).

In his first contribution to Dr. Dobb's Journal, Bentley teams up with noted computer scientist Robert Sedgewick in writing an article on efficient data search algorithms.

Algorithms form the underlying principles and methodologies of all computer software. Computer science and programming could accurately be summed up as the study and implementation of algorithms -- a topic about which Bentley is an acknowledged expert.