Alan Turing

Alan Turing

male, deceased (1954) (london)
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...
Noga Alon

Noga Alon

male
Noga Alon is an Israeli mathematician noted for his prolific contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored...
Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

male, 71 years old (Stanford, California, United States)
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...
Michael Sipser

Michael Sipser

male (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
Michael Sipser is a professor of Applied Mathematics in the Theory of Computation Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research...
Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky

male, 80 years old (Stony Brook, New York, United States)
Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He...
Shafi Goldwasser

Shafi Goldwasser

female, 51 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Shafrira Goldwasser (born 1958) is the RSA Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and a professor of mathematical...
Andreas Blass

Andreas Blass

male
Andreas Raphael Blass is a mathematician, currently a professor at the University of Michigan. He specializes in mathematical logic, particularly...

Don Sannella

male
Don Sannella is Professor of Computer Science in the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, School of Informatics, University of...
Leslie Valiant

Leslie Valiant

male, 60 years old
Leslie Valiant (born 28 March 1949) is a British computer scientist and computational theorist. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge,...
Paris Kanellakis

Paris Kanellakis

male, deceased (1995)
Paris Christos Kanellakis was a computer scientist. Kanellakis was born in Greece as the only child of general Eleftherios and Mrs. Argyroula...