The story
It was published by Nigel Horspool in 1980, and based on an earlier (1977) algorithm developed by Robert S. Boyer and J. Strother Moore.
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Boyer-Moore-Horspool algorithm
Today it means: An algorithm for finding substrings that trades space for time in order to obtain an average-case time complexity of O(n) on random text. Full definition →