Academic
Newton Faller
- Life
- 1947 – 1996
- Born
- January 25, 1947
- Died
- October 9, 1996
- Nationality
- Brazil
Newton Faller the son of Kurt Faller and Ada Faller from Rio Grande do Sul, was a Brazilian computer scientist and electrical engineer. He is credited with the discovery of adaptive Huffman codes while an employee of IBM do Brasil in Rio. He was later the head of the Brazilian UNIX development project at the Electronic Computing Center of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (NCE/UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro.
