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| x Danny Hillis |
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Metaweb Technologies, Inc. |
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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| Applied Minds | Author | |||
| Thinking Machines | Computer Scientist | |||
| Long Now Foundation | Musical Artist | |||
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| x James H. Clark |
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Healtheon |
Dr. James H. Clark (born March 23, 1944) is a prolific entrepreneur and former computer scientist. He founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO and...
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| Netscape | Venture Investor | |||
| MyCFO | Computer Scientist | |||
| Shutterfly | Celebrity | |||
| Silicon Graphics, Inc. | Measured person | |||
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| x Steve Wozniak |
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Apple Inc. |
Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11, 1950 in San Jose, California) is an American computer engineer who founded Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing...
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| x Ashar Aziz |
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FireEye |
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 Bill Joy |
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Sun Microsystems |
Bill Joy, longtime KP Limited Partner, joined KPCB as Partner in January 2005.At
KP he helps entrepreneurs advance the Internet, develop wireless
innovations, and find new ways of using large scale computing to solve
the most difficult problems. He...
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| x Andy Bechtolsheim |
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Sun Microsystems |
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 Michael Stonebraker |
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Cohera |
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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Computer Scientist |
| Vertica | Person | |||
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| x Gordon Moore |
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Intel Corporation |
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 Barney Pell |
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Powerset |
Barney Pell (born March 18, 1968 in Hollywood, California is founder and CEO of PowerSet, a semantic web company based in Silicon Valley. He is an expert on artificial intelligence and natural language processing.
Pell received his B.S. degree in...
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| x John Ousterhout |
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Electric Cloud |
John Kenneth Ousterhout (pronounced /ˈoʊstərhaʊt/) is the chairman of Electric Cloud, Inc. and a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He founded Electric Cloud with John Graham-Cumming. Ousterhout previously was a professor of...
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| x Robert Metcalfe |
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3Com |
Robert Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York) is an electrical engineer from the United States who co-invented Ethernet, founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's Law. As of January 2006, he is a general partner of Polaris...
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| x Carver Mead |
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Foveon |
Professor Carver Andress Mead (born 1 May 1934, in Bakersfield, California) is a prominent U.S. computer scientist. He is the Gordon and Betty Moore professor emeritus at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), having taught there for over...
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| x Rodney Brooks |
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IRobot |
Rodney Allen Brooks (b. December 30, 1954, in Adelaide, Australia) is a professor of robotics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1986 he has authored a series of highly influential papers, which have inaugurated a fundamental shift in...
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| x Tim Berners-Lee |
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World Wide Web Consortium |
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955), is a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25...
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| x Tim Bray |
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Open Text Corporation |
Timothy William Bray is a Canadian software developer and entrepreneur. He co-founded Open Text Corporation and Antarctica Systems. Currently, Tim is the Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems.
Tim was born on June 21, 1955 in Alberta,...
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| Blogger | ||||
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| x Stephen Wolfram |
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Wolfram Research |
Stephen Wolfram (born 29 August 1959 in London) is a British physicist, software developer, mathematician, computer programmer, author and businessman, known for his work in theoretical particle physics, cosmology, cellular automata, complexity...
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| x James Lau | NetApp |
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 Robert Tappan Morris |
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Y Combinator |
Robert Tappan Morris, (born November 8, 1965), is an associate professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the Institute's department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is best known for creating the Morris Worm in 1988,...
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| x Dileep Panjwani | Blue Lane Technologies |
Mr. Panjwani is the founder of Blue Lane Technologies. He conceived of
the core technology and developed the business plan around which Blue
Lane was founded. Throughout his career, Mr. Panjwani has delivered
creative and practical solutions to...
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| x Taher Elgamal |
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Securify |
Dr. Taher Elgamal (Arabic: طاهر الجمل) (born 18 August 1955) is an Egyptian cryptographer. Elgamal is sometimes written as El Gamal or ElGamal, but Elgamal is now preferred. In 1985, Elgamal published a paper titled A Public key Cryptosystem and A...
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| x Andrew Viterbi |
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Qualcomm |
Andrew James Viterbi, Ph.D. (Bergamo (Italy) March 9, 1935) is an Italian-American electrical engineer and businessman.
Viterbi was born in Bergamo, Italy to Jewish parents and emigrated with them in 1939 to the United States as a refugee. His...
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| x Dan Boneh |
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Voltage Security Inc. |
Dan Boneh (pronounced /boʊˈneɪ/; Hebrew: דן בונה) is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He is a well-known researcher in the areas of applied cryptography and computer security. He obtained his Ph.D....
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| Cryptographer | ||||
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| x Mark Micheli | Airplay |
Mark Micheli is AirPlay’s Vice President of Engineering, responsible
for the design, development and deployment of all software products
related to AirPlay’s service. Mark has been in senior management
positions within the game and music technology...
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| x Kim Polese |
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Marimba |
Kim Karin Polese (born November 13, 1961) is CEO of SpikeSource, and was one of the most prominent Silicon Valley executives during the dot-com era. In 1997, she made Time Magazine's list of "The 25 Most Influential Americans".
She received a BA...
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| x Max Levchin |
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SponsorNet New Media |
Max Rafael Levchin (born July 11, 1975) is a Ukrainian-born computer scientist and entrepreneur widely known as co-founder (with Peter Thiel) and former chief technology officer of PayPal.
Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union...
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| NetMeridian Software | Film producer | |||
| PayPal | Website Owner | |||
| Slide | Board Member | |||
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| x Joseph S. Kennedy |
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Ungermann-Bass |
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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Board Member |
| Phoenix Technology | Person | |||
| Rapid City Communications | Computer Scientist | |||
| x Duc Pham | Linux4 Networks |
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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| DeGooroo Inc. | Person | |||
| Vormetric, Inc. | Computer Scientist | |||
| x In Sik Rhee |
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Kiva Software |
In Sik Rhee has co-founded 2 successful startup companies and has
developed technologies across a wide spectrum of domain knowledge –
from end-user packaged software to high-end mission critical enterprise
systems. In Sik self-taught software...
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Person |
| Opsware | Board Member | |||
| Computer Scientist | ||||
| x Richard J. Lipton | Damballa |
Richard Jay "Dick" Lipton is an American computer scientist who has worked in computer science theory, cryptography, and DNA computing. Prof. Lipton is presently Associate Dean of Research, Professor, and the Frederick G. Storey Chair in Computing...
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| x Ivan Sutherland |
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Evans & Sutherland |
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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| Sutherland, Sproull and Associates | Computer Scientist | |||
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| x F. Thomson Leighton |
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Akamai Technologies |
Frank Thomson "Tom" Leighton is a professor of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has served as the head of the Algorithms group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory since 1996, and co...
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| x Andy Hertzfeld |
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Radius |
Andy Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953) was a key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team during the 1980s. After buying an Apple II in January 1978, he went to work for Apple Computer from August 1979 until March 1984, where he was a...
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| Computer Scientist | ||||
| x Donald Michie |
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The Turing Institute |
Donald Michie (November 11, 1923 – July 7, 2007) was a British researcher in artificial intelligence. During World War II, Michie worked at Bletchley Park, contributing to the effort to solve "Tunny," a German teleprinter cipher.
Michie was born in...
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| Computer Scientist | ||||
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| x Edwin Catmull |
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Pixar |
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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| Computer Scientist | ||||
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| x Philippe Kahn |
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Borland |
Philippe Kahn (born March 16, 1962) is a technology innovator and entrepreneur, who is credited with creating the first camera phone solution sharing pictures instantly on public networks .
Kahn has founded four successful technology companies,...
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| Inventor | ||||
| Computer Scientist | ||||
| x Douglas Engelbart |
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Bootstrap Institute |
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart (born January 30, 1925) is an American inventor and early computer pioneer. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse, as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers,...
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| Digital Techniques | Influence Node | |||
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| x Anna Patterson | Cuil, Inc. |
Anna Patterson (born 1973 in Chicago) is an American academic and technologist. She is president of Cuil, a search engine. Patterson is noted for having created the world's biggest search engine index consisting of 30 billion pages using information...
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| Computer Scientist | ||||
| x Michael Luby |
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Digital Fountain |
Michael George Luby is a mathematician and computer scientist, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Digital Fountain. In coding theory he is known for leading the invention of the Tornado codes and the LT codes. In cryptography he is known for...
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| Board Member | ||||
| Computer Scientist | ||||
| x Vlad Shmunis | RingCentral |
Mr. Shmunis brings more than 20 years of systems architecture and
telecommunications experience to RingCentral. Prior to founding Ring
Zero Systems, Inc. in 1991, Mr. Shmunis held engineering development
and technical management positions at...
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| Board Member | ||||
| Computer Scientist | ||||
| x A. Richard Newton |
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Cadence Design Systems |
Arthur Richard Newton (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1 July 1951 – 2 January 2007) was the dean of the University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering.
Newton was educated at the University of Melbourne and received a BE in 1973 and M...
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| Crossbow Technology | Deceased Person | |||
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| x Charles Bachman |
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Bachman Information Systems |
Charles William Bachman (Dec 11, 1924, Manhattan, Kansas) is an American computer scientist, who spent his entire career as an industrial researcher rather than in academia. He is particularly known for his work in the area of databases.
Born during...
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| x L. Peter Deutsch | Aladdin Enterprises |
L Peter Deutsch or Peter Deutsch (born Laurence Peter Deutsch) is the founder of Aladdin Enterprises and creator of Ghostscript, a free software PostScript and Pdf interpreter.
Deutsch's other work includes the definitive Smalltalk implementation...
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| x Ronald Rivest |
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RSA Data Security |
Ronald Linn Rivest (born 1947, Schenectady, New York) is a cryptographer. He is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member of MIT's Computer...
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| Peppercoin | Award Winner | |||
| RSA Security | Person | |||
| Cryptographer | ||||
| Author | ||||
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| x Silvio Micali | Peppercoin |
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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| Cryptographer | ||||
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| Computer Scientist | ||||
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| x Edward Feigenbaum |
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IntelliCorp |
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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| Design Power Inc. | Award Winner | |||
| Teknowledge | Influence Node | |||
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| x Joseph Sifakis |
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VERIMAG Laboratory |
Joseph Sifakis (Greek: Ιωσήφ Σηφάκης) is a Greek-French computer scientist, laureate of the 2007 Turing Award, along with Edmund M. Clarke and E. Allen Emerson, for his work on model checking.
He was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1946 and studied...
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| x Alan Kay |
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Viewpoints Research Institute |
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 Patrick Tufts | 24 Hr Diner |
Patrick Tufts is a computer scientist and entrepreneur. Patrick created Alexa Internet's collaborative filter and, following Alexa's acquisition by Amazon.com, one of Amazon's most successful product recommendation systems. He is also a Wikipedia...
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| x Daniel M. Lewin | Akamai Technologies |
Daniel "Danny" Mark Lewin (Hebrew: דניאל (דני) מארק לוין; May 14, 1970 – September 11, 2001) was a mathematician and entrepreneur, best known for co-founding internet company Akamai Technologies.
Lewin was born in Denver, Colorado and raised in...
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| Computer Scientist | ||||
| x John George Kemeny | Alliance Communications |
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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