Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

male, 80 years old (Stony Brook, New York, United States)
linguist, philosopher, Left Wing, Chomsky hierarchy, philosopher of mind, theoretical linguistics…philosophy of language, formallanguage
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He...
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…Programming language designer, programming language, High-level programming language, Fortran programming language, formallanguage
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language...
Aristid Lindenmayer

Aristid Lindenmayer

male, deceased (1989)
Biologist, hungarian, formallanguage, L-system
Aristid Lindenmayer was an Hungarian biologist. In 1968 he developed a formal language that is today called L-systems or Lindenmayer Systems. Using...
Seymour Ginsburg

Seymour Ginsburg

male, deceased (2004)
University of Michigan, University of Southern California, University of Miami, algol, American computer scientist, mathematics…programming language, formallanguage, formal language theory, context-free language
Seymour Ginsburg (1928-2004) was a pioneer of automata theory, formal language theory, and database theory in particular; and computer science in...
Anil Nerode

Anil Nerode

male (Ithaca, New York, United States)
University of Chicago, Cornell University, formallanguage, mathematician, computer scientist, Cornell University faculty…regular language
Anil Nerode is a U.S. mathematician. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago under Saunders Mac Lane and is, at...
Sheila Greibach

Sheila Greibach

female, 70 years old
UCLA, compiler, automata, pushdown automata, University of California, Los Angeles, formallanguage
Sheila Greibach (1939-) is a researcher in formal languages, automata, compiler theory in particular; and computer science in general. She is...

Marcel-Paul Schützenberger

male, deceased (1996)
mathematician, French, mathematics, information theory, creationist, darwinism…formallanguage
Marcel-Paul "Marco" Schützenberger was a French mathematician and Doctor of Medicine. His work had impact across the fields of formal language, c...

Günter Hotz

male, 78 years old
mathematician, computer scientist, German, gottingen, formallanguage, Georg August University of Göttingen
Günter Hotz is a German pioneer of computer science. His work includes formal languages, digital circuits and computational complexity theory. In 1...