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John von Neumann John von Neumann in the 1940s Person
John von Neumann (December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who made major contributions to a vast range of fields including set theory, functional analysis, quantum mechanics, ergodic theory, continuous...
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David Gelernter   Person
David Hillel Gelernter (b. 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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Kurt Bollacker Person
Dr. Kurt Bollacker is a computer scientist with a research background in the areas of machine learning, digital libraries, semantic network, and electro-cardiographic modeling. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from The University Of Texas...
Alan Turing Alan Turing Person
Alan Mathison Turing, , (23 June 1912–7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, logician and cryptographer. Turing is often considered to be the father of modern computer science. Turing provided an influential formalisation of the concept of...
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Lee Giles   Person
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,...
Danny Hillis Danny Hillis2 Person
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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David A. Patterson David A. Patterson Person
David Andrew Patterson (born November 161947) 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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Marvin Minsky Marvin Minsky Person
Marvin Lee Minsky (born August 9, 1927) is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy. Marvin Lee Minsky was born in New York...
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Dave Beckett   Person  
Donald Knuth Donald Knuth Person
Donald Ervin Knuth (b. 10 January 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 Programming ("TAOCP"), Knuth has...
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Matthew Dillon   Operating System Developer  
D. Richard Hipp D. Richard Hipp Person
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 Lemon LALR parser and CVSTrac...
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Martin Fowler Martin Fowler Software Developer
Martin Fowler is a famous author and international speaker on software architecture, specializing in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, patterns, and agile software development methodologies, including extreme programming. Martin Fowler...
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Ivan Sutherland   Person
For New Zealand rower - Ivan Sutherland (rower) 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...
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David Wagner David Wagner Person
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...
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...
Christopher Blizzard Christopher Blizzard Board Member
Christopher Blizzard is a 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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Charles E. Leiserson   Person
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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Randy Pausch   Person
Randy Pausch (born October 23, 1960) is a Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States and a best-selling author. In September 2006, Pausch was...
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Rodney A. Brooks   Person
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...
Guido van Rossum Guido van Rossum Programming Language Designer
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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Steve Dekorte   Programming Language Designer  
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Michael Stonebraker Stonebraker.jpg Company Founder
Michael Stonebraker is a computer scientist specializing in database research and development. His career covers, and helped create, the majority of the existing relational database market today. He is also the founder of Ingres, Illustra, Cohera,...
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Pat Hanrahan   Person
Pat Hanrahan is a computer graphics researcher and professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University.His research focuses on rendering algorithm, graphics processing unit, and...
David François Huynh   Person  
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