Alan Turing

Alan Turing

male, deceased (1954)
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE (23 June 1912 - 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer. Turing is often considered to be... More
David May

David May

male
David May is a British chip designer and computer scientist. David May joined the British company INMOS in 1979, based in Bristol. Here he was the... More
Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

male
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955) is the inventor of the World Wide Web, director of the World Wide Web... More
Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

male, 70 years old (Stanford, California, United States)
Donald Ervin Knuth (or "Ka-NOOTH" ,) (b. 10 January 1938) is a renowned computer scientist and Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer... More
Jim Gray

Jim Gray

male, 64 years old
James Nicholas "Jim" Gray (born 1944, lost at sea January 28, 2007) is an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for... More
Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky

male, 81 years old (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Marvin Minsky is here critical of many current researchers in artificial intelligence researchers who he feels have gotten bogged down in theories... More
Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper

female, deceased (1992)
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the... More
John von Neumann

John von Neumann

male, deceased (1957)
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., U... More
John McCarthy

John McCarthy

male, 81 years old
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer... More
Paul Graham

Paul Graham

male, 44 years old
Paul Graham (b. Weymouth, England, 1964) is a Lisp programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is the author of "On Lisp" (1993), "ANSI Common... More