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| x John von Neumann |
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John von Neumann (Hungarian: margittai Neumann János Lajos) (December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian American mathematician who made major contributions to a vast range of fields, including set theory, functional analysis, quantum...
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| x David Gelernter |
David Hillel Gelernter (born 1955) is a professor of computer science at Yale University. In the 1980s, he made seminal contributions to the field of parallel computation, specifically the tuple space coordination model, as embodied by the Linda...
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| x Kurt Bollacker |
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Dr. Kurt Bollacker is a computer scientist with a research background in the areas of machine learning, digital libraries, semantic networks, and electro-cardiographic modeling. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University Of...
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| x Alan Turing |
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Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS (pronounced /ˈtjʊ(ə)rɪŋ/) (23 June, 1912 – 7 June, 1954) was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist.
Turing is often considered to be the father of modern computer science. He provided...
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| x Lee Giles |
Dr. C. Lee Giles is the David Reese Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. He is also Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems,...
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| x Danny Hillis |
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William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation, a company that developed the Connection Machine, a parallel supercomputer...
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| x David A. Patterson |
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David Andrew Patterson (born November 16, 1947) is an American computer pioneer and academic who has held the position of Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1977.
A native of Evergreen Park, Illinois, David...
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| x Donald Knuth |
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Donald Ervin Knuth (pronounced /kəˈnuːθ/) (born January 10, 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming at Stanford University.
Author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer...
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| x Matthew Dillon | ||
| x D. Richard Hipp |
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D. Richard Hipp (born April 9, 1961) is best known on the internet as the architect and primary author of SQLite. He and his wife, Ginger G. Wyrick, currently live and work in Charlotte, North Carolina. He also authored the Lemon Parser Generator...
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| x Martin Fowler |
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Martin Fowler is an author and international speaker on software development, specializing in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, patterns, and agile software development methodologies, including extreme programming.
Martin Fowler started...
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| x Ivan Sutherland |
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Ivan Edward Sutherland (born 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that...
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| x David Wagner |
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David A. Wagner (1974) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and a well-known researcher in cryptography and computer security. He is a member of the Election Assistance Commission's Technical...
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| x Phil Bernstein |
Phil Bernstein is a computer scientist specializing in database research in the Database Group of Microsoft Research. Berstein is also an affiliate professor at the University of Washington and frequent committee member or chair of conferences such...
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| x Christopher Blizzard |
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Christopher Blizzard is an Open Source Evangelist working for the Mozilla Corporation and a long-time contributor to Open Source projects, notably with Mozilla, Red Hat, and One Laptop Per Child.
Prior to his position as Open Source Evangelist he...
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| x Charles E. Leiserson |
Charles Eric Leiserson is a computer scientist, specializing in the theory of parallel computing and distributed computing, and particularly practical applications thereof; as part of this effort, he developed the Cilk multithreaded language. He...
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| x Randy Pausch |
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The Last Lecture is a New York Times best-selling book written by Randy Pausch, a professor of computer science, human-computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The book was born out...
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| x Rodney A. Brooks |
Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT. He is also the Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; and the Chief...
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| x Guido van Rossum |
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Guido van Rossum (born 31 January 1960) is a Dutch computer programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language. In the Python community, Van Rossum is known as a “Benevolent Dictator for Life” (BDFL), meaning that he...
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| x Steve Dekorte | ||
| x Michael Stonebraker |
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Dr. Stonebraker has been a pioneer of database research and technology
for more than a quarter of a century. He was the main architect of the
INGRES relational DBMS, and the object-relational DBMS, POSTGRES. These
prototypes were developed at the...
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| x Pat Hanrahan |
Pat Hanrahan is a computer graphics researcher, the Canon USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University. His research focuses on rendering algorithms, graphics processing...
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| x David François Huynh |
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| x Joe Hellerstein | ||
| x Jaime Ohm |
Undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon University
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| x Mark Wilkinson |
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Dr. Wilkinson earned his Bachelors degree in genetics from the University of Alberta in 1990, with an emphasis on developmental genetics. In 1996 he received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in Botany studying the...
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| x Stefano Mazzocchi |
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| x Daniel Peebles | ||
| x Thomas H. Cormen |
Thomas H. Cormen is the co-author of Introduction to Algorithms, along with Charles Leiserson, Ron Rivest, and Cliff Stein. He is a Full Professor of computer science at Dartmouth College and currently Chair of the Dartmouth College Writing Program....
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| x Cesar Gonzalez-Perez |
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| x Murat Kalender |
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| x Alan Perlis |
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Alan Jay Perlis (April 1, 1922 – February 7, 1990) was an American computer scientist known for his pioneering work in programming languages and the first recipient of the Turing Award.
Perlis was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1943, he...
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| x Steve Wozniak |
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Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11, 1950 in San Jose, California) is an American computer engineer who founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing significantly to the...
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| x Ashar Aziz |
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Ashar Aziz holds over 20 patents in the areas of networking, network
security, and datacenter virtualization. Prior to founding FireEye,
Ashar founded Terraspring, a company focused on datacenter automation
and virtualization. Terraspring was...
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| x Gordon Moore |
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Gordon Earle Moore (born 3 January 1929 in San Francisco, California) is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law (published in an article 19 April 1965 in Electronics Magazine).
Moore was born in San...
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| x James Lau |
James Lau is chief strategy officer, responsible for guiding the evolution of Network Appliance's business strategy and identifying additional market and product opportunities to fuel future growth. He cofounded NetApp with Dave Hitz in 1992 and was...
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| x Joseph S. Kennedy |
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Prior
to Omneon, Kennedy held CEO appointments at Pluris Networks, a developer of scalable Internet routers, from June 1999 to March 2002.
Prior to that Mr. Kennedy was the founder and Chief Executive Officer
of Rapid City Communications, developer...
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| x Duc Pham |
Duc Pham has many years of experience in the high
technology industry with expertise in high performance, parallel
processing, secure computing, and wire/wireless networking solutions
for enterprise, banking, and financial service industry.
He is...
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| x Dominik Kuropka | ||
| x Michael J. Butler |
Michael J. Butler is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK.
Butler was originally from Ireland and received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Trinity College, Dublin in 1988. He then undertook an MSc and...
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| x Jeffrey Lagarias |
Jeffrey Clark Lagarias (b. November, 1949 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a mathematics professor at the University of Michigan.
He was a Putnam Fellow in 1970. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974....
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| x Warren Lyford DeLano |
Warren Lyford DeLano is an advocate for the increased adoption of open source practices in the sciences, and especially drug discovery, where advances which save time and resources can also potentially save lives. In 2000, he launched the PyMOL open...
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| x Herman Heine Goldstine |
Herman Heine Goldstine (September 13, 1913 – June 16, 2004), mathematician, computer scientist and scientific administrator, was one of the original developers of ENIAC, the first of the modern electronic digital computers.
Herman Heine Goldstine...
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| x Richard Stearns |
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Richard Edwin Stearns (born July 5, 1936) is a prominent computer scientist who, with Juris Hartmanis, received the 1993 ACM Turing Award "in recognition of their seminal paper which established the foundations for the field of computational...
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| x Andrew S. Tanenbaum |
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Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum (sometimes referred to by the handle ast) (born March 16, 1944) is a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is best known as the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like...
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| x Timothy J. Hickey |
Timothy J Hickey is a professor of computer science and Chair of the Computer Science and Internet Studies Program (INET) at Brandeis University. He was born on July 24, 1955.
Hickey's specialties include analysis of algorithms, logic programming...
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| x Melvin Conway |
Dr. Melvin Conway was an early computer scientist, computer programmer, and hacker who coined what's now known as Conway's Law: "Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures...
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| x Clifford Berry |
Clifford Edward Berry (April 19, 1918 – October 30, 1963) was an American inventor.
Clifford Berry was born in Gladbrook, Iowa to Fred Gordon Berry and Grace Strohm. He was the oldest of four children born to the couple: Clifford, Keith, Frederick,...
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| x Diane Zak |
Diane L. Zak is an author of a number of technology-related texts. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in both Computer Information Systems and Accounting. She also has a Master of Arts degree in Adult and Continuing Education. Diane has taught...
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| x Andrew Donald Booth |
Andrew Donald Booth (born 1918) was a British engineer, physicist and computer scientist who led the invention of the magnetic drum memory for computers and invented Booth's multiplication algorithm.
From 1943 to 1945 Booth worked as a mathematical...
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| x Noel Sharkey |
Noel Sharkey is a British computer scientist. He is best known for his appearances as an expert on the BBC 2 television series Robot Wars and Techno Games. He co-hosts Bright Sparks, a science and engineering challenge series, for BBC Northern...
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| x Apostolos Gerasoulis |
Apostolos Gerasoulis is the co-creator of Teoma, an Internet search engine that powers Ask.com. Gerasoulis is a former Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers University; he co-founded Teoma along with his colleagues at Rutgers in 2000. Gerasoulis...
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| x Klaus Sutner |
Klaus Sutner is a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, and is also the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs for the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. His research interests include cellular automata,...
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| x Jenny Preece |
Jenny Preece is the Dean of the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, as of 2006. She researches online communities and is known for her work on what makes such a community successful, and how usability factors interact with...
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| x William James Dally |
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William Dally is the Willard R.and Inez Kerr Bell Professor in the Stanford University School of Engineering and Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Stanford. Previously he taught at MIT where he and his group built the J-Machine and the...
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| x Abraham Lempel |
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Abraham Lempel (Hebrew: אברהם למפל, born 10 February 1936 in Lvov, Poland) is an Israeli computer scientist and one of the fathers of the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.
He studied at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,...
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| x C. A. R. Hoare |
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Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (born 11 January 1934), commonly known as Tony Hoare or C.A.R. Hoare, is a British computer scientist, probably best known for the development in 1960, at age 26, of Quicksort, one of the world's most widely used...
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| x B. J. Fogg |
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B.J. Fogg is best known for promoting the concept of "captology," a word he coined to describe the overlap between persuasion and computers.
As a doctoral student at Stanford University (1993-1997), Fogg used methods from experimental psychology to...
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