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| x Alan Jay Smith | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Dr. Alan Jay Smith is a computer scientist and researcher in the field of development and applications of caching strategies and the measurement and analysis of computer storage systems with many important contributions to the field. He currently is...
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| x Alan Perlis |
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Ph.D. | 1950 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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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| Master's degree | 1949 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||
| Bachelor's degree | 1943 | Carnegie Institute of Technology | ||||
| x Andrew S. Tanenbaum |
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Bachelor of Science | 1965 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum (sometimes referred to by the handle ast) (born March 16, 1944) is a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is best known as the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like...
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| Ph.D. | 1971 | University of California, Berkeley | ||||
| x Andrew Viterbi |
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University of Southern California |
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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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||||
| Boston Latin School | ||||||
| x Ashar Aziz |
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Master of Science | University of California, Berkeley |
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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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||||
| x Bernard M. Gordon | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Bernard Marshall Gordon (born in 1927), American inventor and philanthropist, is generally called "Bernie" rather than "Mr. Gordon" by associates and subordinates. Born not long before the stock market crash of 1929 to an ordinary working family in...
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| Tufts University | ||||||
| x Brian Cantwell Smith | Ph.D. | 1982 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Brian Cantwell Smith is a scholar in the fields of cognitive science, computer science, philosophy, and information studies. His research has focused on the foundations and philosophy of computing, both in the practice and theory of computer science...
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| Master's degree | 1978 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||
| Bachelor's degree | 1974 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||
| x Carl Hewitt | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Carl E. Hewitt is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Hewitt is known for his design of Planner. This was the first programming language based...
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| x Charles Molnar |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Charles Edwin Molnar (1935–1996) was a co-developer of one of the first minicomputers, the LINC (Laboratory Instrument Computer), while a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1962. His collaborator was Wesley A....
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| x Claude Elwood Shannon |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001), an American electronic engineer and mathematician, is known as "the father of information theory".
Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with one landmark paper published...
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| University of Michigan | ||||||
| x Clifford Stein | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Clifford Stein, a computer scientist, is currently a professor of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia University in New York, NY, where he also holds an appointment in the Department of Computer Science. Dr. Stein is chair of...
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| Princeton University | ||||||
| x Daniel G Bobrow | Harvard University |
Daniel Gureasko Bobrow (born 1935) is a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems Laboratory of the Palo Alto Research Center, and is amongst other things known for creating an oft-cited artificial intelligence program STUDENT, with which he earned...
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||||
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | ||||||
| x Danny Hillis |
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Ph.D. | 1988 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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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| Master of Science | 1981 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||
| Bachelor of Science | 1978 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||
| 1964 | Keystone School | 1962 | ||||
| 1967 | Lida Lee Tall Elementary School | 1966 | ||||
| x David A. Huffman | Ohio State University |
David Albert Huffman (August 9, 1925 – October 7, 1999) was a pioneer in the computer science field.
Throughout his life, Huffman made significant contributions to the study of finite state machines, switching circuits, synthesis procedures, and...
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||||
| x David François Huynh |
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High School Diploma | 1996 | Pope John Paul II Catholic Secondary School | 1992 | |
| Master of Science | 2003 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2001 | |||
| Bachelor of Applied Science | 2001 | University of Waterloo | 1996 | |||
| Ph.D. | Aug 2007 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2003 | |||
| x David P. Reed |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
David P. Reed (born January 31, 1952) is an American computer scientist, educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, known for a number of significant contributions to computer networking.
He was heavily involved in the early development...
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| x Douglas T Ross | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Douglas Taylor (Doug) Ross (1929 - 31 Jan 2007) was an American computer scientist, Chairman of SofTech, Inc. and a pioneer in mathematics and computing. Many consider Ross to be the father of APT - Automatically Programmed Tools - the language that...
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| Oberlin College | ||||||
| x Ellen Spertus | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Ellen Spertus is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Mills College, Oakland, California, United States, and a research scientist at Google.
Spertus grew up in Glencoe, Illinois, where she attended New Trier High School. At MIT she received...
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| New Trier High School | ||||||
| x F. Thomson Leighton |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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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| Princeton University | ||||||
| x Gary Drescher |
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Ph.D. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Gary L. Drescher is a scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), author of the book Made-Up Minds: A Constructivist Approach to Artificial Intelligence.
His book describes a theory of how a computer program might be implemented to learn...
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| x George Varghese | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
George Varghese is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California San Diego where he leads the Internet Algorithms Lab and also works with the Center for Network Systems and the Center for Internet Epidemiology. He is the author of...
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| x Gerald Jay Sussman |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Gerald Jay Sussman (August 9, 1947) is the Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his S.B. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from MIT in 1968 and 1973 respectively. He has been...
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| x Guy Steele |
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Ph.D. | 1980 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Guy Steele is a Sun Fellow for Sun Microsystems Laboratories,
working on the Programming Language Research project. His research
interests include algorithms, compiler design, distributed systems,
floating-point arithmetic, Fortress, functional...
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| Master of Science | 1977 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||
| Bachelor of Arts | 1975 | Harvard College | ||||
| x Hal Abelson |
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Princeton University |
Harold (Hal) Abelson is the Class of 1922 Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, a fellow of the IEEE, and is a founding director, both of Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation.
Abelson holds an A.B. degree from...
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||||
| x Ivan Sutherland |
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Ph.D. | 1963 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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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| Master's degree | California Institute of Technology | |||||
| Bachelor's degree | Carnegie Institute of Technology | |||||
| x Jack Dennis |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Jack Bonnell Dennis is an American electrical engineer and a computer scientist.
Dennis entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1949 as an electrical engineering major; he received his M.S. degree in 1954, and continued doctoral...
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| x Jeffrey Lagarias | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Jeffrey Clark Lagarias (born November, 1949 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) is a mathematics professor at the University of Michigan.
He was a Putnam Fellow in 1970. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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| x Jon Kleinberg |
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Ph.D. | 1996 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Jon Michael Kleinberg (born October 1971) is an American computer scientist, MacArthur Fellow, Nevanlinna Prize winner, and the Tisch University Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University.
Jon Kleinberg was born in 1971 in Boston,...
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| Bachelor of Science | 1993 | Cornell University | ||||
| x K. Mani Chandy | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Kanianthra Mani Chandy is the Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology. He has been the Executive Officer of the Computer Science Department twice, and he has been a professor at Caltech since 1989.
Chandy...
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| Indian Institutes of Technology | ||||||
| Polytechnic University of New York | ||||||
| x Leonard Kleinrock |
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Bronx High School of Science |
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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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||||
| City College of New York | ||||||
| x Leonid Levin | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Leonid Anatolievich Levin (Hebrew: לאוניד אנטולייביץ לוין; Russian: Леонид Анатольевич Левин; Phonetic: Le-oh-NEED Le-vin; born November 2, 1948 in Dnipropetrovsk Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian-American computer scientist.
He obtained his master...
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| Moscow State University | ||||||
| x Leslie Lamport |
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Brandeis University |
Leslie Lamport (born February 7, 1941 in New York City) is an American computer scientist. A graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, he received a B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1960, and M.A. and Ph.D....
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||||
| Bronx High School of Science | ||||||
| x Lynn Conway |
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Master of Engineering | 1963 | Columbia University |
Lynn Conway (born 1938) is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, inventor, trans woman, and activist for the transgender community.
Conway is notable for several technical achievements, including the Mead & Conway revolution in VLSI...
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| Bachelor of Science | 1962 | Columbia University | ||||
| 1958 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1955 | ||||
| x Manuel Blum |
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Ph.D. | 1964 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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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| Master's degree | 1961 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||
| Bachelor's degree | 1959 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||
| x Marie K. D. Johnson |
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Ph.D. | University of Southern California |
Marie K. D. Johnson (Born October 10, 1961) founded Computer Technical Services, Inc and sold the business to work for a major manufacturer. Maire has moved away from the traditional IT view and role, focusing on Business Image Revitalization. ...
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| Master of Science | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |||||
| Bachelor of Science | University of Nebraska–Lincoln | |||||
| High School Diploma | Pius X High School | |||||
| x Michael Hammer |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Michael Martin Hammer (13 April 1948 - 3 Sept 2008) was an American engineer, management author, and a former professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), known as one of the founders of the management theory of...
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| x Michael Luby |
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Bachelor of Science | 1975 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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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| Ph.D. | 1983 | University of California, Berkeley | ||||
| x Michael Schroeder | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Michael Schroeder is a computer scientist perhaps most famous as the co-inventor of the Needham-Schroeder protocol. He is the assistant managing director of Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, where he has been since its inception in 2001 when he...
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| Washington State University | ||||||
| x Michael wellman | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Michael Paul Wellman (Born March 27, 1961) is Professor of Computer Science at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Wellman received a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 for his work in qualitative probabilistic reasoning and...
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| x Mitchel Resnick |
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Ph.D. | 1992 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Mitchel Resnick is LEGO Papert Professor of Learning Research, Director of the Okawa Center, and Director of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. Resnick currently serves as the head of the Media Arts and Sciences academic program,...
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| Master of Science | 1988 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||
| Bachelor of Arts | 1978 | Princeton University | ||||
| x Nicholas Negroponte |
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M.A. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of The One Laptop...
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| Bachelor of Arts | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |||||
| x Nick Palmer |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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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| Birkbeck, University of London | ||||||
| University of Copenhagen | ||||||
| University of London | ||||||
| x Peter J. Denning | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Peter J. Denning (1942) is an American computer scientist, and prolific writer. He is best known for inventing the working-set model for program behavior, which defeated thrashing in operating systems and became the reference standard for all memory...
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| Manhattan College | ||||||
| x Peter Shor |
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California Institute of Technology |
Peter Williston Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT, most famous for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster...
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||||
| x Radia Perlman |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Radia Joy Perlman (born 1951 in Portsmouth, Virginia, USA) is a software designer and network engineer sometimes referred to as the 'Mother of the Internet'. She is most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol, while working for...
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| x Rafail Ostrovsky | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Rafail Ostrovsky (born 1963) is a professor of computer science and mathematics at UCLA and a well-known researcher in algorithms and cryptography. Prof. Ostrovsky received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1992. He is a member of the Editorial Board of...
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| x Renee J Miller | Ph.D. | University of Wisconsin-Madison | ||||
| Bachelor of Science | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |||||
| x Robert Iannucci | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Robert Alan Iannucci is a computer scientist. His areas of expertise include multiprocessing and embedded systems. He earned his PhD at MIT in 1988, and went on to work in computer architecture and research, notably at Compaq and later Nokia.
As of...
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| x Robert Metcalfe |
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Bachelor of Science | 1969 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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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| Harvard University | ||||||
| MIT Sloan School of Management | ||||||
| x Ronald Baecker | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Dr. Ron Baecker (born October 7, 1942) is a tenured Professor of Computer Science (cross-appointed to the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and to the Faculty of Management) at the University of Toronto, and has held these positions...
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| x Thomas H. Cormen | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Thomas H. Cormen is the co-author of Introduction to Algorithms, along with Charles Leiserson, Ron Rivest, and Cliff Stein. He is a Full Professor of computer science at Dartmouth College and currently Chair of the Dartmouth College Department of...
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| Princeton University | ||||||
| x Tim Finin |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Tim Finin (born 1949 in Walworth, Wisconsin) is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). His research has focused on the applications of Artificial intelligence to problems in...
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| x Wesley A. Clark |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Wesley Allison Clark (born 1927) is a computer scientist and one of the main participants, along with Charles Molnar, in the creation of the LINC laboratory computer, which was the first mini-computer and shares with a number of other computers ...
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| x William Stallings | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Dr. William Stallings is an American computer scientist, best known for his textbooks on computer science topics such as operating systems, computer networks, computer organization, and cryptography.
Stallings received his bachelor's degree in...
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| x Yoky Matsuoka | University of California, Berkeley |
Yoky Matsuoka (born c. 1972) is an associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (U.W.), director of that university's Neurobotics Laboratory, and a 2007 MacArthur Fellow. Her research combines neuroscience...
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||||||
