Richard J. Cole is a Silver Professor of Computer Science at the

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Research

His research areas include algorithmic economic market theory and game theory, string and pattern matching, amortization, parallelism, and network and routing problems. His notable research contributions include an optimal parallel algorithm for sorting in the PRAM model, and an optimal analysis of the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cole, Richard Living people Postgate family American computer scientists People educated at Ealing County Grammar School for Boys Alumni of University College, Oxford Cornell University alumni Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty 1998 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Silver professors 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians 20th-century American engineers 21st-century American engineers 20th-century American scientists 21st-century American scientists American computer science educators 1957 births