Eduard Ayguadé and Xavier Martorell, co-authors of the article recipient of the Wilkes Award (2019) of The Computer Journal

Winning paper

Formalization of Block Pruning: Reducing the Number of Cells Computed in Exact Biological Sequence Comparison Algorithms
Edans F O Sandes, George L M Teodoro, Maria Emilia M T Walter, Xavier Martorell, Eduard Ayguade, Alba C M A Melo
The Computer Journal (2018) 61 (5): 687-713.
doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxx090

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