David Wheeler

Name: David John Wheeler

Born: February 9, 1927, in Birmingham, England

Death: December 13, 2004 (Age: 77)

Computer-related contributions

• Computer scientist who completed the world's first PhD in computer science in 1951.
• Known for his work on Burrows-Wheeler transform and the Wheeler Jump.
• Credited the subroutine (which they called the closed subroutine), because of which jump to subroutine instruction is often called Wheeler Jump.
• Designer of WAKE and the co-designer of the TEA and XTEA encryption algorithms.

Significant publications

• The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer (1951).

Honors and awards

• Fellow of the Royal Society (1981).
• Inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1994).
• Computer History Museum Fellow Award recipient (2003).