Raphael Rom

{{Short description|Israeli computer scientist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Raphael "Raphi" Rom | native_name = רפאל רום | native_name_lang = he | fields = Computer Science | workplaces = Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | alma_mater = University of Utah | doctoral_advisor = Thomas Stockham | known_for = Catmull–Rom spline, computer networks }} '''Raphael''' "'''Raphi'''" '''Rom''' ({{Langx|he|רפאל רום}}) is an Israeli computer scientist working at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.<ref>[http://www3.ee.technion.ac.il/ccit/info/General/CCITPeople_e.asp?staff_id=81&sug=Facul Faculty profile], Technion, retrieved 2014-05-01.</ref>

Rom earned his Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of Utah, under the supervision of Thomas Stockham.<ref>{{mathgenealogy|id=95277}}.</ref> He is known for his contribution to the development of the Catmull–Rom spline,<ref>{{citation|title=Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art|first=Ira|last=Greenberg|publisher=Apress|year=2007|isbn=9781430203100|page=281|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TKgfVpWPb0sC&pg=PA281}}.</ref> and for his research on computer networks.

==Selected publications== *{{citation|first1=E.|last1=Catmull|author1-link=Edwin Catmull|first2=R.|last2=Rom|contribution=A class of local interpolating splines|title=Computer Aided Geometric Design|pages=317–326|year=1974|editor1-first=R. E.|editor1-last=Barnhill|editor2-first=R. F.|editor2-last=Riesenfeld|location=New York|publisher=Academic Press}}. *{{citation|title=Multiple Access Protocols: Performance and Analysis|first1=R.|last1=Rom|first2=M.|last2=Sidi|publisher=Springer|year=1990}}.<ref>Review of ''Multiple Access Protocols'' by David Finkel (1991), ''ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review'' 18 (4): 11, {{doi|10.1145/122289.1045553}}.</ref><ref>Review of ''Multiple Access Protocols'' by Apple van de Liefvoort (1993), ''ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review'' 20 (3): 5–6, {{doi|10.1145/155768.1044950}}.</ref> *{{citation | last1 = Orda | first1 = A. | last2 = Rom | first2 = R. | doi = 10.1145/79147.214078 | issue = 3 | journal = Journal of the ACM | mr = 1072271 | pages = 607–625 | title = Shortest-path and minimum-delay algorithms in networks with time-dependent edge-length | volume = 37 | year = 1990| citeseerx = 10.1.1.392.7997 | s2cid = 2910521 }}. *{{citation | last1 = Orda | first1 = A.. | last2 = Rom | first2 = R. | last3 = Shimkin | first3 = N. | doi = 10.1109/90.251910 | issue = 5 | journal = IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | pages = 510–521 | title = Competitive routing in multiuser communication networks | volume = 1 | year = 1993| citeseerx = 10.1.1.380.8744 | s2cid = 1184436 }}. *{{citation | last1 = Azar | first1 = Yossi | last2 = Naor | first2 = Joseph | author2-link = Joseph Seffi Naor | last3 = Rom | first3 = Raphael | doi = 10.1006/jagm.1995.1008 | issue = 2 | journal = Journal of Algorithms | mr = 1317665 | pages = 221–237 | title = The competitiveness of on-line assignments | volume = 18 | year = 1995| citeseerx = 10.1.1.41.5057 | s2cid = 6718477 }}. *{{citation | last1 = Cidon | first1 = I. | last2 = Rom | first2 = R. | last3 = Shavitt | first3 = Y. | doi = 10.1109/90.811453 | issue = 6 | journal = IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking | pages = 885–896 | title = Analysis of multi-path routing | volume = 7 | year = 1999| citeseerx = 10.1.1.144.962 | s2cid = 1056820 }}.

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==External links== *[http://webee.technion.ac.il/people/rom/hp.html Home page]

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