Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

male, 71 years old (Stanford, California, United States)
computerscientist, Turing Award laureate, mathematician, Emacs user, The Art of Computer Programming, computer pioneer…StanfordUniversity, computer programmer, Computer Modern, Stanford University faculty, theoretical computer science
Don's father was a Lutheran school teacher and church organist. Don studied piano, and for a brief time organ, through high school. Later as a...
John McCarthy

John McCarthy

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

Vint Cerf

male
TCP/IP, Google employee, Internet pioneer, founding fathers of the Internet, Internet history, internet…Stanford University alumni, gallaudet university, computerscientist, computer pioneer, University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly...
Niklaus Wirth

Niklaus Wirth

male, 75 years old
Turing Award, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Formal methods, Niklaus E. Wirth, software engineering, programming language…computer pioneer, computerscientist, StanfordUniversity, University of Zurich, University of California at Berkeley
Niklaus E. Wirth (b. February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal,...
Rodney Brooks

Rodney Brooks

male, 54 years old
robotics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Roboticist, MIT, Australian, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory…Cognitive scientist, computerscientist, Lecturer at Stanford University, lecturer at the University of Minnesota, Director of the Computer Science
Rodney Allen Brooks (b. December 30, 1954 in Adelaide) is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Chief...
Sebastian Thrun

Sebastian Thrun

male
national academy of engineering, StanfordUniversity, DARPA Grand Challenge, University of Hildesheim, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, FINMECCANICA…university of bonn, Carnegie Mellon University, computerscientist
Sebastian Thrun is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he also serves as the Director of the...
Terry Winograd

Terry Winograd

male, 63 years old (Stanford, California, United States)
human-computer interaction researcher, Stanford University faculty, professor, computerscientist, HCI, Groupware…Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, StanfordUniversity, Cognitive scientist, Stanford University employee
Terry Allen Winograd (born February 24, 1946) is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He is known within the philosophy of mind...
Marissa Mayer

Marissa Mayer

female, 34 years old
Google, Google employee, Stanford University alumni, StanfordUniversity, Businesswoman, search engine…stanford alum, computerscientist, computer science, Stanford, M.S. in Computer Science
Marissa leads the product management efforts on Google's search products - web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the Google Toolbar, Google...

John Koza

male
Scientific Games Corporation, StanfordUniversity, Doctor of Philosophy, state lotteries in the United States, Genetic Programming Inc, genetic programming…University of Michigan, computerscientist, computer program
John R. Koza is a computer scientist and a consulting professor at Stanford University, most notable for his work in pioneering the use of genetic...
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