Education
Wegman received his Bachelor of Arts from New York University and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Mark Wegman
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He joined International Business Machines Corporation Research in 1975, where he currently serves as head of Computer Science. He became an International Business Machines Corporation Fellow in 2007. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010.
Wegman is best known for being one of the inventors of the Static single assignment form, which is used in the analysis portion of most if not all modern optimizing compilers.
He has also made contributions to algorithms and information theory including universal hashing and the LZMW data compression algorithm.
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers]
He is a member of the International Business Machines Corporation Academy of Technology and a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (1996) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
