Alan Turing

Alan Turing

male, deceased (1954) (london)
computerscientist, computer pioneer, turing machine, British computer scientist, British cryptographer at Bletchley Park, scientist…theoretical computer science, Academic of the University of Manchester, University of Manchester, Victoria University of Manchester, computer designer
This short on-line biography of Alan Turing is based on the entry I wrote for the British Dictionary of National Biography in 1995. The eight parts...
Employment: …Princeton University
Education: Ph.D. at Princeton University, Graduate Student at Princeton University
John McCarthy

John McCarthy

male, 82 years old
Turing Award laureate, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, PrincetonUniversity, National Medal of Science recipient, mathematical logic, Turing Award…computer pioneer, computerscientist, scientist, Stanford University faculty, Stanford University
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer...
Edward Felten

Edward Felten

male, 46 years old
Public Affairs, PrincetonUniversity, proof-carrying authentication, Secure Digital Music Initiative, EFF Pioneer Award recipient, Copyright activist…Computer security specialist, computer security, University of Washington alumni, computerscientist
Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer scientist, hid and disabled the browser with a removal program he wrote while serving as a...
Brian Kernighan

Brian Kernighan

male, 67 years old
Princeton University alumni, Princeton University faculty, UNIX person, Bell Labs, UNIX programming, C programming language…PrincetonUniversity, computer programmer, computer pioneer, computerscientist, university of toronto
Brian Wilson Kernighan, (born 1942 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken...
David Wagner

David Wagner

male, 35 years old
cryptanalysis, AES competition, University of California, Berkeley, Twofish encryption algorithm, Wired Equivalent Privacy, SSL…Computer security specialist, University of California, Berkeley faculty, computer security, computerscientist, PrincetonUniversity
David A. Wagner (1974) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and a well-known researcher in...

Andrew Appel

male
Standard ML of New Jersey, Compiling With Continuations, Carnegie Mellon University alumni, PrincetonUniversity, Andrew W. Appel, Modern Compiler Implementation in ML…carnegie-mellon university, computerscientist, Princeton University employee
Andrew W. Appel is a professor of computer science at Princeton University, New Jersey. He is especially well-known because of his compiler books,...
Thomas H. Cormen

Thomas H. Cormen

male
barbecue, PrincetonUniversity, Cliff Stein, Charles Leiserson, Introduction to Algorithms, Master's Degree…computerscientist, Professor of Computer Science
Thomas H. Cormen is the co-author of "Introduction to Algorithms", along with Charles Leiserson, Ron Rivest, and Cliff Stein. He is a Full...
Bernard Chazelle

Bernard Chazelle

male, 54 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Erdős number 2, INRIA, Applied Mathematics, Ecole Normale Superieure, Ecole des Mines de Paris…Carnegie Mellon University, computerscientist, Brown University, PrincetonUniversity, Yale University
Bernard Chazelle (born November 5, 1955) is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. Although he is best known for his invention of...

Robert Sedgewick

male
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, fellow, Association for Computing Machinery, quicksort, Algorithms in C, Algorithms in C++…computerscientist, PrincetonUniversity
Robert Sedgewick is the author of the celebrated book series Algorithms, published by Addison-Wesley. The series includes: * "Algorithms" (in...
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