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Incoming links: Robert Tarjan in the Hertz Foundation profiles
Robert Tarjan Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
Robert Tarjan is a computer scientist whose work connects efficient graph algorithms, data structures and rigorous analysis. His contributions include algorithms for lowest common ancestors and, with collaborators, splay trees and Fibonacci heaps.[ref]
His work on amortized analysis explains why an individual operation can be expensive while a whole sequence remains efficient. The accounting assigns the cost of occasional restructuring across the sequence instead of assuming each operation has the same worst-case cost. Splay trees make this distinction particularly concrete: moving recently accessed nodes changes the tree while supporting strong bounds over a sequence of accesses.[ref]
Amortized Computational Complexity by Robert Endre Tarjan. Sections 1–2, total sequence cost and amortization
Homepage: www.cs.princeton.edu/~ret/
Institutional profile: www.hertzfoundation.org/people/robert-tarjan/
