About the Author

Sally Goldman earned an SC. B. from Brown University in 1984, She completed her Ph.d. under the supervision of Dr. Ronald Rivest at MIT in 1990. Since 1990, she has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University. She is the Edwin H. Murty Professor of Engineering and the Associate Chair of Computer Science & Engineering. She regularly teaches an introductory data structures & algorithms course as well as an advanced algorithms course. She has many journal & conference publications in computational learning theory, machine learning, image retrieval & online algorithms.

Kenneth Goldman earned an Sc. B. from Brown University in 1984. He completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Nancy Lynch at MIT in 1990. Since 1990, he has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington university. He regularly teaches introductory computer science & design methodology courses. His journal & conference publications are primarily in the area of distributed systems, distributed algorithms, and programming environments.