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...
Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker

male, 63 years old
Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (born March 22, 1946 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American computer scientist and science fiction author, and is one of...
John Horton Conway

John Horton Conway

male, 71 years old
John Horton Conway (born December 26, 1937, Liverpool, England) is a prolific mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory,...
Don Hopkins

Don Hopkins

male
Don Hopkins is an artist and programmer specializing in computer-human interaction and computer graphics. He invented pie menus, inspired Richard...
Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner

male, 95 years old
Martin Gardner (b. October 21, 1914, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a popular American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational...
Manuel de Landa

Manuel de Landa

male, 57 years old
Manuel DeLanda, (born 1952 in Mexico City), is a writer, artist and distinguished philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. He is an...
Edgar F. Codd

Edgar F. Codd

male, deceased (2003)
Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd was a British computer scientist who made seminal contributions to the theory of relational databases. While working for...
Bill Gosper

Bill Gosper

male
Ralph William Gosper, Jr., (b. 1943) known as Bill Gosper, is an American mathematician and programmer from Pennsauken, New Jersey. Along with...
Edward Fredkin

Edward Fredkin

male
Edward Fredkin (born 1934) is an early pioneer of digital physics (in recent work he uses the term digital philosophy (DP)). His main contributions...
Joseph Nechvatal

Joseph Nechvatal

male, 58 years old
Joseph Nechvatal (born 1951) is a post-conceptual digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer...