Jim Gray

Jim Gray

male, 65 years old
Microsoft Research, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, computer scientist, Terraserver, TuringAward, database…Turing Award laureate, awarded the ACM's prestigious A.M. Touring Award
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...
John Backus

John Backus

male, deceased (2007) (San Francisco, California, United States)
Turing Award laureate, programming language creator, National Medal of Science recipient, IBM 704, Backus-Naur form, National Medal of Science…ACM Turing Award, TuringAward
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language...
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, TuringAward
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer...
Niklaus Wirth

Niklaus Wirth

male, 75 years old
TuringAward, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Formal methods, Niklaus E. Wirth, software engineering, programming language…Turing Award laureate, awarded the Turing Prize
Niklaus E. Wirth (b. February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal,...
Peter Naur

Peter Naur

male, 81 years old
backus, PhD, Doctor of Philosophy, Copenhagen University, Technical University of Denmark, Niels Bohr Institute…TuringAward, Turing Award laureate
Peter Naur (born October 25, 1928) is a Danish pioneer in computer science and Turing award winner. His last name is the N in the BNF notation...
Frances E. Allen

Frances E. Allen

female, 77 years old
computer scientist, Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, code optimization, optimizing compilers, compiler optimization…TuringAward, Turing Award laureate
Frances Elizabeth "Fran" Allen (born 1932) is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Her achievements...
Dennis Ritchie

Dennis Ritchie

male, 68 years old
computer pioneer, Turing Award laureate, scientist at Bell Labs, C programming language, Lucent Technologies, Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie…TuringAward
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (born September 9, 1941) is an American computer scientist notable for his influence on ALTRAN, B, BCPL, C, Multics, and...
Allen Newell

Allen Newell

male, deceased (1992)
Princeton University, Cognitive scientist, rand, Carnegie Mellon University faculty, cognitive psychology, Carnegie Mellon University…Turing Award laureate, TuringAward, A.M. Turing Award
Allen Newell was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Co...
Raj Reddy

Raj Reddy

male, 72 years old
Mozah Bint Nasser, Govering Board IIIT-Hyderabad, john mccarthy, anna university, Doctor of Philosophy, AAAI…TuringAward, Turing Award laureate
Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born June 13, 1937 in Katoor, India, near Chennai) is a world-renowned researcher in Artificial Intelligence,...
Edsger W. Dijkstra

Edsger W. Dijkstra

male, deceased (2002)
Turing Award laureate, A. C. M. Turing Award, Leiden University alumni, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Programming language designer, computer scientist…A. M. Turing Award, TuringAward
Edsger Wybe Dijkstra (May 11, 1930 - August 6, 2002); IPA:) was a Dutch computer scientist. He received the 1972 A. C. M. Turing Award for...