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@Article{Barron:2005:DWP,
author = "David W. Barron",
title = "{David Wheeler}: a Personal Memoir",
journal = j-COMP-J,
volume = "48",
number = "6",
pages = "650--651",
month = nov,
year = "2005",
CODEN = "CMPJA6",
DOI = "https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxh131",
ISSN = "0010-4620 (print), 1460-2067 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0010-4620",
bibdate = "Tue Nov 8 05:58:50 MST 2005",
bibsource = "http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol48/issue6/index.dtl;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/compj2000.bib",
URL = "http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/48/6/650;
http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/48/6/650",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
fjournal = "The Computer Journal",
journal-URL = "http://comjnl.oxfordjournals.org/",
keywords = "Burrows--Wheeler transform (BWT); bzip; bzip2;
Cambridge CAP computer; Tiny Encryption Algorithm
(TEA)",
remark = "From the article: ``Anderson described the history of
the Tiny Encryption Algorithm, developed by Wheeler and
the late Roger Needham (a former Wheeler research
student, later head of the Laboratory and the first
managing director of Microsoft Research Ltd). The
algorithm was designed in part to `inject some sanity'
into the imposition of export controls on encryption
software by the US Government in the late 1980s.
Wheeler's solution was to devise an encryption
algorithm so short, simple and general that it could be
memorized and encoded in any language. It proved
impossible to put an embargo on what ended up as just
eight lines of code --- another masterpiece in
miniature.'' See \cite{Wheeler:1995:TTE} for the
algorithm.\par
``In an email collaboration, Wheeler and Burrows
devised a data compression technique based on BWT,
which was published as a research report in 1994. The
idea was picked up by Dr Dobb's Journal and soon
diffused into the commons of computing. Not long after,
Burrows received a call from Donald Knuth --- asking if
he was working with {\em the\/} David Wheeler! Today
the technique is the basis of the widely used open
source bzip and bzip2 file formats.''",
}