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| x Henri Gouraud |
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Computing scientist | Influence Node |
Henri Gouraud (born 1944) is a French computer scientist. He is the inventor of Gouraud shading used in computer graphics. He is the great nephew of general Henri Gouraud.
During 1964–1967, he studied at École Centrale Paris. He received his Ph.D....
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| x Steve Crocker |
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Computing scientist |
Stephen D. Crocker (born October 15, 1944 in Pasadena, California) is the inventor of the Request for Comments series, authoring the very first RFC and many more. He received his bachelor's degree (1968) and PhD (1977) from the University of...
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| x Alan Perlis |
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Computing scientist | Person | Introduction to computer science |
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 to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
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| x Matthias Ettrich |
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Programmer | Computer Scientist |
Matthias Ettrich (born 14 June 1972 in Bietigheim-Bissingen, southern Germany) is a computer scientist known for his contributions to the KDE and LyX projects.
Mathias went to School in Beilstein, as he lived with his parents in Oberstenfeld, not...
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| x Wang Xuan |
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Computing scientist | Deceased Person |
Wang Xuan (Chinese: 王选; February 5, 1937 - February 13, 2006), born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, innovator of the Chinese printing industry, was an academician at both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is a well...
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| x Ken Thompson |
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Programmer | Award Winner |
Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943), commonly referred to as Ken Thompson (or simply ken in hacker circles), is an American pioneer of computer science notable for his work with the B programming language and his shepherding of the Unix...
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| x Silvio Micali | Computing scientist | Cryptographer |
Silvio Micali (born October 13, 1954) is an Italian-born computer scientist at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a professor of computer science in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science since...
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| x Edward Feigenbaum |
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Computing scientist | Award Winner | Rise of Expert Company |
Edward Albert Feigenbaum (born January 20, 1936; Weehawken, New Jersey) is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence. He is often called the "father of expert systems."
Feigenbaum completed his undergraduate degree, and a...
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| Influence Node | The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World | ||||
| Software Developer | Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Organic Chemistry: The DENDRAL Program | ||||
| Military Person | The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence; Computers and Thought | ||||
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| x Richard Wallace | Programmer |
Richard Wallace, born in Portland, Maine in 1960, is the inventor of A.L.I.C.E., a chat bot created at Lehigh University that won the Loebner prize thrice. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
The Elements of AIML...
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| x Jim Ellis | Computing scientist | Deceased Person |
James Tice Ellis (6 May 1956 – 28 June 2001) was a computer scientist best known as the co-creator of Usenet, along with Tom Truscott.
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Ellis grew up in Orlando, Florida. Before developing Usenet, Ellis attended Duke...
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| x Claude Crépeau | Computing scientist | Cryptographer |
Dr. Claude Crépeau was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1962. He received a Masters degree from the Université de Montréal in 1986, and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT in 1990, working in the field of cryptography with Prof....
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| x Alex Fraser | Scientist | Deceased Person |
Alex Fraser (1923-2002) was a major innovator in the development of the computer modeling of population genetics and his work has stimulated many advances in genetic research over the past decades.
His efforts in the 1950s and 1960s had a profound...
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| x F. X. Reid | Computing scientist | Deceased Person |
F. X. Reid (aka FXR), who purportedly died 2006, was and continues to be the pen name of British computer science academic Mike W. Shields.
Reid has been a long-time and amusing contributor to the British Computer Society FACS Specialist Group...
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| x Alan Kay |
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Computing scientist | Programming Language Designer |
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist, known for his early pioneering work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface design. He is the president of the Viewpoints Research Institute, and an...
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| x Leonard Adleman |
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Programmer | Award Winner |
Leonard Max Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is a theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known for being a co-inventor of the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman)...
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| x Robby Garner |
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Programmer | Computer Scientist |
Robby Garner (born 1963) is a natural language programmer and software developer. He won the 1998 and 1999 Loebner Prize Contests with the program called Albert One. He is listed in the 2001 Guinness Book of World Records as having written the "most...
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| x Amir Pnueli |
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Computing scientist | Award Winner | Temporal Verification of Reactive Systems: Safety |
Amir Pnueli (Hebrew: אמיר פנואלי; born April 22, 1941) is an Israeli computer scientist.
Pnueli was born in Nahalal, Israel and received a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the Technion in Haifa, and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the...
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| x David Parnas |
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Computing scientist | Influence Node |
David Lorge Parnas (born February 10, 1941) is a Canadian early pioneer of software engineering, who developed the concept of information hiding in modular programming, which is an important element of object-oriented programming today. He is also...
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| x Robert Kowalski | Computing scientist | Programming Language Designer |
Robert "Bob" Anthony Kowalski (born May 15, 1941, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA) is a logician and computer scientist, of Polish descent, who has spent most of his career in the United Kingdom.
He was educated at the University of Chicago,...
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| x Andy Bechtolsheim |
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Electrical engineer | Company Founder |
Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and employee
number one, returns to Sun as Chief Architect and Senior Vice
President, Network Systems organization and is also a member of Sun's
executive management team. In his new role...
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| x Donald Davies | Computing scientist | Deceased Person |
Donald Watts Davies, CBE FRS (June 7, 1924 – May 28, 2000) was a Welsh computer scientist who was a co-inventor of packet switching (and originator of the term), along with Paul Baran in the US.
Davies was born in Treorchy in the Rhondda Valley,...
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| x Raymond Reiter | Computing scientist | Deceased Person |
Raymond Reiter (June 12, 1939 – September 16, 2002), was a Canadian computer scientist and logician. He was one of the founders of the field of non-monotonic reasoning with his work on default logic, model-based diagnosis, closed world reasoning,...
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| x Rasmus Lerdorf |
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Programmer | Programming Language Designer |
Rasmus Lerdorf (born November 22, 1968 in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland) is a Danish-Greenlandic programmer and is most notable as the creator of the PHP programming language. He authored the first two versions. Lerdorf also participated in the...
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| x Nicholas Metropolis |
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Mathematician | Deceased Person |
Nicholas Constantine Metropolis (June 11, 1915 – October 17, 1999) was a Greek American physicist.
Metropolis received his B.Sc. (1937) and Ph.D. (1941) degrees in physics at the University of Chicago. Shortly afterwards, Robert Oppenheimer...
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| x Jochen Liedtke | Computing scientist | Deceased Person |
Jochen Liedtke (1953 – 10 June 2001) was a German computer scientist, noted for his work on microkernels, especially the creation of the L4 microkernel family.
Liedtke's work on the Elan programming language in the 1970s led him to create Eumel, an...
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| x Nick Palmer |
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Computing scientist | Politician |
Dr. Nicholas Douglas Palmer is a British politician and Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Broxtowe since 1997. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of State, Malcolm Wicks, in the Department for Business, Enterprise and...
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| x Madhu Sudan | Scientist | Computer Scientist |
Madhu Sudan (Tamil: மதுசூதன்) (born September 12, 1966) is an Indian computer scientist, professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a member of MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
He...
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| x David Wagner |
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Researcher | Computer Scientist |
David A. Wagner (1974) is a 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 Guidelines...
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| x Rob Pike |
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Programmer | Author | The Practice of Programming |
Robert C. Pike (born 1956) is a software engineer and author. He is best known for his work at Bell Labs, where he was a member of the Unix team and was involved in the creation of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs and Inferno operating systems, as well as...
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| x Ian Goldberg | Computing scientist | Cryptographer |
Ian Avrum Goldberg (born March 31, 1973) is a cryptographer and cypherpunk. He is best known for breaking Netscape's implementation of SSL (with David Wagner), and for his role as Chief Scientist of Radialpoint (formerly Zero-Knowledge Systems), a...
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| x Manuel Blum |
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Scientist | Influence Node |
Manuel Blum (born 26 April 1938 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and...
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| x Calvin Gotlieb | Computing scientist | Computer Scientist |
Calvin Carl "Kelly" Gotlieb, CM, FRSC (born March 27, 1921) is a Canadian professor and computer scientist who has been called the "Father of Computing" in Canada. He is the Professor Emeritus in Computer Science at the University of Toronto.
He...
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| x Gerard Salton |
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Computing scientist | Deceased Person |
Gerard Salton (8 March 1927 in Nuremberg - 28 August 1995) was a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. Salton was perhaps the leading computer scientist working in the field of information retrieval during his time. His group at...
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| x Shafi Goldwasser | Computing scientist | Cryptographer |
Shafrira Goldwasser (Hebrew: שפרירה גולדווסר; born 1958) is the RSA Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and a professor of mathematical sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Born in New York City, she...
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| x Edwin Catmull |
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Writer | Film producer |
Edwin Catmull, Ph.D. (born 1945) is an Academy Award-winning computer scientist and current president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios. As a computer scientist, Catmull has contributed to many important developments in...
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| x Michael J. C. Gordon |
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Computing scientist | Influence Node | Mechanised Reasoning and Hardware Design |
Michael John Caldwell Gordon, British computer scientist (born February 28, 1948).
Mike Gordon led the development of the HOL theorem prover. The HOL system is an environment for interactive theorem proving in a higher-order logic. Its most...
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| x Andrew Yao |
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Computing scientist | Award Winner |
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (Chinese: 姚期智; pinyin: Yáo Qīzhì) is a prominent computer scientist and computational theorist. Yao used the minimax theorem to prove what is now known as Yao's Principle.
Yao was born in Shanghai, China. He completed his...
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| x Michael A. Jackson | Programmer | Computer Scientist |
Michael Anthony Jackson (born 1936) is a British computer scientist, and independent computing consultant in London, England. He is also part-time researcher at AT&T; Research, Florham Park, NJ, U.S., and visiting research professor at the Open...
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| x Mark Weiser |
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Computing scientist | Deceased Person |
Mark D. Weiser (July 23, 1952 – April 27, 1999) was a chief scientist at Xerox PARC. Weiser is widely considered to be the father of ubiquitous computing, a term he coined in 1988.
Weiser was born in Harvey to David W. Weiser and Audra H. Weiser. He...
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| x Gene Spafford |
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Engineer | Computer Scientist |
Eugene H. Spafford (born 1956) (known colloquially as "Spaf") is a professor of computer science at Purdue University and a leading computer security expert.
A historically significant Internet figure, he is renowned for first analyzing the Morris...
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| x Tom Maibaum | Computing scientist | Computer Scientist |
Prof. Tom Maibaum (born 18 August 1947 in Hungary) is a British-Canadian computer scientist.
Maibaum has an undergraduate degree in Pure Mathematics from the University of Toronto, Canada (1970), and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of...
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| x Patrick J. Hayes | Computing scientist | Computer Scientist |
Patrick John Hayes or Pat Hayes (21 August 1944) is a British computer scientist who lives and works in the United States. As of March 2006, he is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, Florida....
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| x Julian Lombardi |
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Inventor | Author | Comparative vertebrate reproduction |
Julian Lombardi (born Nov 11, 1956) is an American inventor, author, educator, and computer scientist known for his work with socio-computational systems, scalable virtual world technologies, and in the design and deployment of deeply collaborative...
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| x Ravi Sethi |
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Scientist | Author | Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools |
Ravi Sethi (born 1947 is an Indian computer scientist retired from Bell Labs and currently president of Avaya Labs Research. He is best known as one of three authors of the classic computer science textbook Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and...
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| x C. A. R. Hoare |
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Scientist | Award Winner | Structured Programming |
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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| Computing scientist | Influence Node | Unifying Theories of Programming | |||
| Author | Communicating Sequential Processes | ||||
| Computer Scientist | Mechanised Reasoning and Hardware Design | ||||
| Programming Language Designer | Developments in Concurrency and Communication | ||||
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| x Ole-Johan Dahl |
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Computing scientist | Deceased Person | Structured Programming |
Ole-Johan Dahl (October 12, 1931 – June 29, 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard.
Dahl, born in Mandal, Norway, is widely accepted as...
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| x Wolfgang Wahlster |
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Computing scientist | Influence Node |
Wolfgang Wahlster (born February 2, 1953) is a German Artificial Intelligence researcher.
He is CEO and Scientific Director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and full professor in computer science at Saarland University,...
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| x Manindra Agrawal | Mathematician | Influence Node |
Manindra Agrawal (Hindi: मणीन्द्र अग्रवाल) (born 20 May, 1966 in Allahabad) is a Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He obtained a B.Tech. and Ph.D. in Computer...
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| x Andrey Ershov | Programmer | Deceased Person |
Academician Andrey Petrovych Ershov (19 April 1931, Moscow - 8 December 1988, Moscow) was a Soviet computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in systems programming and programming language research. He was responsible for the languages ALPHA and...
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| x John Hopcroft |
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Computing scientist | Award Winner | Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation |
John Edward Hopcroft (born October 7, 1939) is a renowned theoretical computer scientist. His textbooks on compilers (various editions are popularly known as the Dragon Book), theory of computation (also known as the Cinderella book) and data...
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| Influence Node | Modeling, Mesh Generation, and Adaptive Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations | ||||
| Author | Science & Engineering Indicators, 1996 | ||||
| Computer Scientist | The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms | ||||
| Academic | Formal Languages and Their Relation to Automata | ||||
| x Annie Easley |
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Mathematician | Computer Scientist |
Annie J. Easley was born on 23 April 1933 in Birmingham, Alabama. She is an African American computer scientist who worked for the Lewis Research Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its predecessor, the National...
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| x Jean Ichbiah |
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Computing scientist | Deceased Person |
Jean David Ichbiah (25 March 1940 – 26 January 2007) was a French-born computer scientist and the chief designer (from 1977–1983) of Ada, a general-purpose, strongly typed programming language with certified validated compilers. At the time, he was...
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| x Michael O. Rabin |
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Computing scientist | Influence Node | Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem. |
Michael Oser Rabin (Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל אֹשֶׁר רַבִּין, born September 1, 1931 in Breslau, Germany, today in Poland) is a computer scientist and a recipient of the Turing Award.
Rabin was born as the son of a rabbi in what was then known as Breslau ...
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| x Stan Kelly-Bootle | Computing scientist | Computer Scientist |
Stan Kelly-Bootle (born 1929, in Liverpool) is a prolific author (nine books, numerous magazine articles), and songwriter (his folk songs have been performed by artists such as Pete Seeger and Cilla Black). His most famous song is the Liverpool...
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| x Leonard Kleinrock |
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Inventor | Influence Node |
Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934, in New York) is an engineer and computer scientist, and a computer science professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, who made several important contributions to the field of...
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| x Rudi Studer | Computing scientist | Computer Scientist |
Rudi Studer (born 1951 in Stuttgart) is a German computer scientist and professor at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He is the head of the knowledge management research group at the Institute AIFB. He is former president of the Semantic Web...
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| x Lance James |
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Computing scientist | Computer Scientist |
Lance James is an American computer scientist, considered an expert on computer security techniques such as anti-phishing. He has been quoted on the subject in multiple media outlets, including CBC, CNN, the BBC, the David Lawrence Show, ZDNet,...
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| x Lennart Johnsson |
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Computing scientist | Computer Scientist |
Lennart Johnsson (born 1944) is a Swedish computer scientist and engineer.
Johnsson started his career at ABB in Sweden and moved on to UCLA, Caltech, Yale University, Harvard University, the Royal Institute of Technology ("KTH" in Sweden), Thinking...
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| x Gordon Plotkin | Scientist | Influence Node |
Gordon D. Plotkin, FRS (born 9 September 1946, in Glasgow) is a Scottish computer scientist.
Gordon Plotkin is best-known for his introduction of structural operational semantics (SOS) and his work on denotational semantics. In particular, his notes...
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| x Robert Tarjan |
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Scientist | Award Winner | Notes on Introductory Combinatorics |
Robert Endre Tarjan (born April 30, 1948) is a renowned American computer scientist. He is the discoverer of several important graph algorithms, including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors algorithm, and co-inventor of both splay trees and...
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