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Kenneth E. Iverson
Kenneth Eugene Iverson (17 December 1920 - 19 October 2004) was a Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the APL programming language in 1962. He was honored with the Turing Award in 1979 for his contributions to mathematical...
Wally Feurzeig
Wally Feurzeig is an inventor of the LOGO programming language, and a well-known researcher in Artificial Intelligence.
During the early 1960s, BBN had become a major center of computer science research and innovative applications. Wally Feurzeig...
John Backus
For the physicist, see John Backus (acoustician)
John Warner 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...
Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus Emil Wirth (born February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award...
John McCarthy
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts), is an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist who received the Turing Award in 1971 for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He was...
Guido van Rossum
Guido van Rossum (born 31 January 1960) 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...
Guy Steele
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...
David Moon
David A. Moon is a programmer and computer scientist, known for his work on the Lisp programming language and related topics.
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Daniel Weinreb
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Simon Peyton Jones
Simon Peyton Jones (born in South Africa on January 18, 1958 ) is a British computer scientist who researches the implementation and applications of functional programming languages, particularly lazy functional languages. He is an honorary...
Gerald Jay Sussman
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...
Anders Hejlsberg
Anders Hejlsberg (born December 1960) is a prominent Danish software engineer who co-designed several popular and commercially successful programming languages and development tools. He was the original author of Turbo Pascal, the chief architect of...
Xavier Leroy
Xavier Leroy (born March 15, 1968) is a French computer scientist and programmer. He is best known for his role as a primary developer of the Objective Caml system. He is senior scientist (directeur de recherche) at the French government research...
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Robin Milner
Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner FRS FRSE (Robin Milner or A.J.R.G. Milner, born 13 January 1934 near Plymouth) is a prominent British computer scientist.
Milner was born in Yealmpton, near Plymouth, England into a military family. He was awarded a...
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Damien Doligez
Damien Doligez is a French academic and programmer. He is best known for his role as a developer of the Objective Caml system, especially its garbage collector. He is research scientist (chargé de recherche) at the French government research...
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Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich (pronounced /ˈаɪk/) (born 1961) is a computer programmer and creator of the JavaScript programming language. He is the Chief Technology Officer at the Mozilla Corporation.
Brendan Eich received his bachelor's degree in math and computer...
Roberto Ierusalimschy
Roberto Ierusalimschy is an associate professor of informatics at PUC-Rio (Pontifical University in Rio de Janeiro). He is the leading architect of the Lua programming language and the author of Programming in Lua (ISBN 85-903798-1-7) and...
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Carl Sassenrath
Carl Sassenrath (born 1957 in California) is an architect of operating systems and computer languages. He brought multitasking to personal computers in 1985 with the creation of the Amiga Computer operating system kernel, and he is currently the...
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Philip Wadler
Philip Wadler is a computer scientist well-known for his contributions to programming language design and type theory. In particular, he has contributed to the theory behind functional programming and the use of monads in functional programming, the...
Manfred von Thun
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Paul Graham
Paul Graham (born 1965) is a programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is known for his work on Lisp and for co-founding Viaweb, which eventually became the Yahoo! Store web system. He is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995),...
Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often abbreviated "rms", is an American software freedom activist, and computer programmer. In September 1983, he launched the GNU Project to create a free Unix-like operating system, and has been the...
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David Madore
David A. Madore (born August 3, 1976) is a Franco-Canadian mathematician and amateur computer scientist who used to work in École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he taught mathematics to Agrégation candidates. Although his specialty is algebraic...
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Arthur Whitney
Arthur Whitney is a computer scientist most notable for developing the APL-inspired programming languages A+ and K. He also wrote the initial prototype of J, a terse and macro-heavy single page of code in one afternoon, which then served as the...
Paul Hudak
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David Turner
Professor David Turner is a British computer scientist.
He has a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. He has held professorships at Queen Mary College, London, University of Texas at Austin and the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he now...
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Butler Lampson
Butler W. Lampson (born 1943) is a renowned computer scientist.
After graduating from the Lawrenceville School, Lampson received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from Harvard University in 1964, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer...
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Martin Odersky
Martin Odersky (born 5 September 1958) is a professor of programming methods at the EPFL. He specialises in code analysis and programming languages.
He designed the Scala programming language and Generic Java.
He was programme Chair of ECOOP 2004....
Richard Gabriel
Richard P. Gabriel (born 1949) is a noted expert on the Lisp programming language (and especially Common Lisp) in computing. He is primarily known for his 1990 essay “Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big”, which popularized the phrase Worse is...
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Albert Gräf
Created Q, the equational programming language at the University of Mainz in Germany
