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Who is who in Computer Science
Ali Aydar
Ali Aydar is a computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. He is
the chief executive officer at Sporcle. He is best known as an early
employee and key technical contributor at the original Napster. Aydar
bought Fanning his first book on programming in C++, the language
he would use two years later to build the Napster file-sharing
software.
Alan Turing
Alan Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was a British
mathematician and computer scientist who formalised the concepts
of algorithm and computation. Turing is widely regarded as the
father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. He
invented the famous Turing machine in 1936 which is considered as
a model of a general-purpose computer.
Anita Borg
Anita Borg (January 17, 1949 – April 6, 2003) was an American
computer scientist. She founded the Institute for Women and
Technology (now the Anita Borg Institute for Women and
Technology). While at Digital Equipment, she developed and
patented a method for generating complete address traces for
analyzing and designing high-speed memory systems.
Alfred Aho
Alfred Aho (born August 9, 1941) is a Canadian computer scientist
best known for his work on programming languages, compilers, and
related algorithms, and his textbooks on the art and science of
computer programming. Aho received a B.A.Sc. in Engineering
Physics from the University of Toronto.
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Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup (born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer
scientist, most notable for the creation and development of the
widely used C++ programming language. He is a Distinguished
Research Professor and held the College of Engineering Chair in
Computer Science at the Texas A&M University from 2002 to 2014.
Bill Gates
Bill Gates (born October 28, 1955) is an American business
magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer, and
inventor. Gates is the former chief executive and chairman of
Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company,
which he co-founded with Paul Allen.
Bruce Arden
Bruce Arden (born in 1927 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an
American computer scientist. He graduated from Purdue University
with a BS(EE) in 1949 and started his computing career in 1950 with
the wiring and programming of IBM's hybrid (mechanical and
electronic) Card Programmed Computer/Calculator at the Allison
Division of General Motors.
Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich (born 1960 or 1961)is an American technologist and
creator of the JavaScript scripting language. He cofounded the
Mozilla project, the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation,
and served as the Mozilla Corporation's chief technical officer and
briefly its chief executive officer.
Barry Boehm
Barry Boehm (born 1935) is an American software engineer, Distinguished
Professor of Computer Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering, the TRW
Professor of Software Engineering. He is known for his many contributions to the
area of software engineering.
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Bert Bos
Bert Bos (born 10 November 1963, The Hague,
Netherlands) is a computer scientist. He studied
mathematics at the University of Groningen, and
wrote his PhD thesis on Rapid user interface
development with the script language Gist. In 1996,
he joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to
work on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
Bryan Cantrill
Bryan Cantrill (born 1973) is an American Software Engineer who
worked at Sun Microsystems and later at Oracle Corporation
following its acquisition of Sun. Cantrill was included in the TR35 list
for his development of DTrace, a function of the OS Solaris 10 that
provides a non-invasive means for real-time tracing and diagnosis of
software. He is currently Chief Technology Officer at Joyent.
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage FRS (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was
an English polymath. He was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor
and mechanical engineer, who is best remembered now for
originating the concept of a programmable computer.
Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie(September 9, 1941 – c. October 12, 2011) was an
American computer scientist. He created the C programming
language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix
operating system. Ritchie and Thompson received the Turing Award
from the ACM in 1983.
David J. Brown
David J. Brown is an American computer scientist. He was one of a small group
that helped to develop the system at Stanford that later resulted in Sun
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Microsystems, and later was a founder Silicon Graphics in 1982. He
define the application binary interface for Solaris, Sun's principal
system software product.
Edgar F. Codd
Edgar F. Codd (August 19, 1923 – April 18, 2003)
was an English computer scientist who, while
working for IBM, invented the relational model for
database management, the theoretical basis for
relational databases. He made other valuable
contributions to computer science.
Frances Allen
Frances Allen (born August 4, 1932) is an American computer
scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Her
achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimization,
and parallelization. She also had a role in intelligence work on
programming languages.
Gordon Bell
Gordon Bell (born August 19, 1934) is an American electrical
engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment
Corporation (DEC) 1960–1966, Bell designed several of their PDP
machines and later became Vice President of Engineering 1972-
1983, overseeing the development of the VAX.
Gregory Chaitin
Gregory Chaitin (born 15th. November, 1947 in Argentina) is an
Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist.
Beginning in the late 1960s, Chaitin made contributions to
algorithmic information theory and metamathematics, in particular
an computer-theoretic result equivalent to Godel's incompleteness
theorem.
James Gosling
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James Gosling OC (born May 19, 1955) is a Canadian computer
scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming
language. In 1977, Gosling received a Bachelor of Science in
Computer Science from the University of Calgary.
John Backus
John Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007) was an
American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented the
first widely used high-level programming language (FORTRAN) and
was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form (BNF), a widely used
notation to define formal language syntax.
Jon Crowcroft
John Crowcroft (born 23 November 1957) is the Marconi Professor
of Communications Systems in the Computer Laboratory of the
University of Cambridge. Professor Jon Crowcroft is distinguished for
his many seminal contributions to the development of the Internet.
His work on satellite link interconnection techniques in the 1980s
paved the way for rural broadband.
Larry Page
Larry Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American business
magnate and computer scientist who is the co-founder of Google,
alongside Sergey Brin. On April 4, 2011, Page succeeded Eric
Schmidt as the chief executive officer of Google. As of 2014, Page's
personal wealth is estimated to be US$32. 3 billion, ranking him #19
on the Forbes list of billionaires.
Larry Wall
Larry Wall (born September 27, 1954) is a computer programmer
and author, most widely known as the creator of the Perl
programming language and Camelia, the spunky spokesbug for Perl
6. Wall grew up in south Los Angeles and then Bremerton,
Washington, before starting higher education at Seattle Pacific
University in 1976.
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Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish
American software engineer, and he is well known for the architect
and development of the Linux kernel. He was honored, along with
Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the
Technology Academy Finland "in recognition of his creation of a new
open source operating system for computers leading to the widely
used Linux kernel.
Luis Von Ahn
Luis Von Ahn (born 1979) is a Guatemalan entrepreneur and an
associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie
Mellon University. He is known as one of the pioneers of
crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which
was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of
Duolingo, a popular language-learning platform.
Luca Cardelli
Luca Cardelli FRS is an Italian computer scientist who is an
Assistant Director at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. Cardelli is
well known for his research in type theory and operational
semantics. Among other contributions, he helped design Modula-3,
implemented the first compiler for the (non-pure) functional
programming language ML.
Michael Dell
Michael Dell (born February 23, 1965) is an American business
magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. He is known as the
founder and CEO of Dell Inc., one of the world’s leading sellers of
personal computers (PCs).
Michael Dertouzos
Michael Dertouzos (November 5, 1936 - August 27, 2001) was a Professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for
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Computer Science (LCS) from 1974 to 2001. During Dertouzos's
term, LCS innovated in a variety of areas, including RSA encryption,
the spreadsheet, the NuBus, the X Window System, and the
Internet.
Maurice Vincent Wilkes
Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was
a British computer scientist credited with several important
developments in computing. At the time of his death, Wilkes was an
Emeritus Professor of the University of Cambridge. He received a
number of distinctions.
Nello Cristianini
Nello Cristianini (born 1968) is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence
at the University of Bristol, a recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson
Research Merit Award. His research contributions across different
areas, such as machine learning, artificial intelligence and
bioinformatics. Specifically, his work is concentrated in the statistical
analysis of the learning algorithms.
Philip Don Estridge
Philip Don Estridge (June 23, 1937 - August 2, 1985), known as
Don Estridge, led development of the original IBM Personal
Computer (PC), and thus is known as "father of the IBM PC". His
decisions dramatically changed the computer industry, resulting in a
vast increase in the number of personal computers sold and bought.
Philip Matthaus Hahn
Philipp November 25, 1739 in Scharnhausen, today part of
Ostfildern - May 2, 1790 in Echterdingen, today part of Leinfelden-
Echterdingen) was a German priest and inventor. In about 1763 he
devised a precision sundial, or heliochronometer that incorporated
the correction for the equation of time.
Per Brinch Hansen
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Per Brinch Hansen (November 13, 1938 – July 31, 2007) was a
Danish-American computer scientist known for concurrent
programming theory. In 1970, his research in computer science
focused on concurrent programming, Inspired by Ole-Johan Dahl and
Kristen Nygaard's programming language Simula 67, he invented the
monitor concept in 1972.
Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 22 November 1968) is a Greenlandic
programmer with Canadian citizenship. He created the PHP scripting
language, authoring the first two versions of the language and
participating in the development of later versions led by a group of
developers including Jim Winstead.
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman (born March 16, 1953) is an American is a
software freedom activist and computer programmer. He is best
known for launching the GNU Project, founding the Free Software
Foundation, developing the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU
Emacs, and writing the GNU General Public License.
Robert S. Boyer
Robert S.Boyer is a retired professor of computer science,
mathematics, and philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin.
He and J Strother Moore invented the Boyer–Moore string search
algorithm, a particularly efficient string searching algorithm, in 1977.
He and Moore also collaborated on the Boyer–Moore automated
theorem prover, Nqthm, in 1992.
Robert Bob Kahn
Robert "Bob" Kahn (born December 23, 1938) is an Amercian
engineer who is well-regarded as one of "the fathers the Internet"
sharing this title with American Internet pioneer Vint Cerf. In
December 1997, Kahn and Cerf received the U.S. National Medal of
Technology, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn is the
co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols, the most important
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communication protocol of the Internet. He was responsible for originating DARPA’s
Internet program.
In 2004, Kahn was the recipient of the prestigious ACM Alan M. Turing award. In
2005, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom - the highest civilian award of
the United States.
Sabeer Bhatia
Sabeer Bhatia was born in Chandigarh on 30 December 1968. He
grew up in Bangalore and had his early education at the Bishop's
School in Pune and then at St Joseph's Boys High School in
Bangalore. Sabeer Bhatia is an Indian American entrepreneur who
founded the Hotmail email service and Jaxt.
Sergey brin
Sergey Brin (born August 21, 1973) is an American computer
scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded
Google, one of the most profitable Internet companies. As of June
2014, his personal wealth was estimated to be US$ 30 billion.
Together, Brin and Page own about 16 percent of the company.
Serge Abiteboul
Serge Abiteboul is a computer scientist working in the areas of
data management, database theory, and finite model theory. He is
currently a senior researcher at the Institute national de recherche
en informatique et en automatique (INRIA), the French national
research institute focussing on computer science and related areas,
and has been a professor of the College de France.
Steve Jobs
Better known as the co-founder of Apple Computers, Steve Jobs was
an American inventor who pioneered the microcomputer revolution
in the 1970s and 1980s. Born in San Francisco, California, Jobs laid
the foundation of Apple Computers in 1976, along with his partner
Steve Wozniak.
Under Steve's leadership, Apple had launched a series of
revolutionary products such as iPhone, iPod, and iPad that had a
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major contribution in modern technology. Steve is also known as the architect of
Macintosh, the widely popular operating system that catalyzed the mass production
of computers with a GUI. Steve passed away in 2011 after a long battle with
pancreatic cancer.
Tim Berners Lee
Tim Berners Lee (born 8 June 1955), also known as "TimBL", is a
British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World
Wide Web. Berners Lee is the director of the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C), which oversees the Web's continued
development.
Vint Cerf
Vint Cerf ( born June 23, 1943) is an American internet pioneer,
who is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing
this title with American engineer Bob Kahn. His contributions have
been acknowledged and lauded, repeatedly. He was instrumental in
the development of the first commercial email system (MCI Mail)
connected to the Internet.
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