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| x Bjarne Stroustrup |
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Person | C++ |
Bjarne Stroustrup (/'bjɑːnə 'sdʁʌʊ̯ˀsdʁɔb/; born December 30, 1950 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a computer scientist and the College of Engineering Chair Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M; University. He is most notable for developing the C++...
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| x Dennis Ritchie |
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Person | C |
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (born September 9, 1941) is an American computer scientist notable for his influence on C and other programming languages, and on operating systems such as Multics and Unix. He received the Turing Award in 1983 and the...
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| x Kenneth E. Iverson |
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Person | APL |
Kenneth Eugene Iverson (17 December 1920 - 19 October 2004) was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the APL programming language in 1962. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 for his contributions to mathematical...
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| x Bertrand Meyer |
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Person | Eiffel |
Bertrand Meyer (born 1950 in France) is an academic, author, and consultant in the field of computer languages. He created the Eiffel programming language.
Bertrand Meyer received the equivalent of a bachelor's degree in engineering from the École...
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| x Microsoft |
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Company | J# |
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation, which rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Windows line of operating systems.
It develops,...
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| Operating System Developer | C# | |||
| Employer | Visual Basic | |||
| Software Developer | Applesoft BASIC | |||
| Computer Game Publisher | Visual Basic .NET | |||
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| x Alan Kay |
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Person | Smalltalk | |
| Software Developer | Squeak | |||
| Influence Node | EToys | |||
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| x Wally Feurzeig | Person | ALGOL |
Wally Feurzeig is an inventor of the LOGO programming language, and a well-known researcher in Artificial Intelligence.
During the early 1960s, BBN had become a major center of computer science research and innovative applications. Wally Feurzeig...
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| x Peter Naur | Person | ALGOL |
Peter Naur (born October 25, 1928) is a Danish pioneer in computer science and Turing award winner. His last name is the N in the BNF notation (Backus-Naur form), used in the description of the syntax for most programming languages. He contributed...
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| x John Backus |
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Person | ALGOL |
John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language (FORTRAN) and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form (BNF), the almost...
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| Programming Language Developer | Fortran | |||
| Deceased Person | FP | |||
| Award Winner | FL | |||
| NNDB Person | ALGOL 58 | |||
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| x Niklaus Wirth |
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Person | ALGOL W |
Niklaus Emil Wirth (born February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award...
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| Award Winner | Pascal | |||
| NNDB Person | Oberon | |||
| Influence Node | Modula-2 | |||
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| x John McCarthy |
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Person | Lisp |
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts), is an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist who received the Turing Award in 1971 for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He was...
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| x Cliff Lasser |
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Person | *Lisp | |
| x Steve Omohundro | *Lisp | |||
| x Apple Inc |
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Company | Dylan |
Apple Inc., (NASDAQ: AAPL) formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing consumer electronics and software products. The company's best-known hardware products include the...
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| Operating System Developer | AppleScript | |||
| Computer Manufacturer/Brand | NewtonScript | |||
| Programming Language Developer | Object Pascal | |||
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| x IBM |
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Company | PL/I |
International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. The company is one of the few information...
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| Operating System Developer | Fortran | |||
| Processor Manufacturer | REXX | |||
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| x Edward Wimmers | FL | |||
| x John Williams | FL | |||
| x Yukihiro Matsumoto |
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Person | Ruby |
He was born in Osaka Prefecture, in western Honshū. According to an interview conducted by Japan Inc., he was a self-taught programmer until the end of high school. He graduated with an information science degree from Tsukuba University, where...
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| x Norman I. Adams | Programming Language Developer | T | ||
| x Jonathan A. Rees |
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Programming Language Developer | T | |
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| x Bob Bemer | Person | COMTRAN |
Robert William Bemer (February 8, 1920 – June 22, 2004) was a computer scientist best known for his work at IBM during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Bemer graduated from Cranbrook School in 1936 and took an A.B....
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| x Grace Hopper |
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Person | FLOW-MATIC |
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Naval officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I calculator, and she...
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| Programming Language Developer | COBOL | |||
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| x Robert Kowalski | Person | Prolog |
Robert "Bob" Anthony Kowalski (born May 15, 1941, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.) is a logician and computer scientist, of Polish descent, who has spent most of his career in the UK.
He was educated at the University of Chicago, University of...
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| x Alain Colmerauer | Person | Prolog |
Alain Colmerauer (born 24 January 1941) is a French computer scientist. He is the creator of the logic programming language Prolog and Q-Systems, one of the earliest linguistic formalisms used in the development of the TAUM-METEO machine translation...
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| x Ericsson |
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Company | Erlang |
Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson) (OMX: ERIC B, NASDAQ: ERIC), one of the largest Swedish companies, is a leading provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services covering a range of technologies,...
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| x Guido van Rossum |
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Person | Python |
Guido van Rossum 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 continues to oversee the...
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| x Arthur G. Snapper | SKED | |||
| x Charles H. Moore |
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Person | Forth |
Charles H. Moore (also known as Chuck Moore) (born 1938) is the inventor of the Forth programming language.
In 1968, while employed at the United States National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Moore invented the initial version of the Forth...
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| x John George Kemeny | Person | BASIC |
John George Kemeny (Hungarian: Kemény János György) (May 31, 1926, Budapest–December 26, 1992, New Hampshire), was a Hungarian-American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in...
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| x Thomas Eugene Kurtz | Person | BASIC |
Thomas Eugene Kurtz (born February 22, 1928) is an American computer scientist who co-developed the BASIC programming language in 1963/64 together with John George Kemeny.
In 1951, Dr. Kurtz’s first experience with computing came at the Summer...
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| x Guy Steele |
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Person | Common Lisp |
Guy Steele is a Sun Fellow for Sun Microsystems Laboratories,
working on the Programming Language Research project. His research |