by Norman Matloff

Norman Saul Matloff (born December 16, 1948) is an American professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis, where he was a founding member of the Department of Statistics[1][9]. He holds a PhD in pure mathematics from UCLA, specializing in probability/functional analysis and statistics, and is the author of 'The Art of Debugging' and creator of popular software packages and web tutorials[1][5].