Alan Turing

Alan Turing

male, deceased (1954) (london)
computer scientist, computer pioneer, turing machine, British computer scientist, British cryptographer at Bletchley Park, scientist…algorithm
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...
Pat Hanrahan

Pat Hanrahan

male
Stanford University, Computer graphics, siggraph, Computer graphics professional, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, rendering…algorithm
Pat Hanrahan is a computer graphics researcher and professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at...
Ricardo Baeza-Yates

Ricardo Baeza-Yates

male
Modern Information Retrieval, chilean, algorithm, University of Chile, Handbook of Algorithms and Data Structures, Fuzzy string searching…Shift Or Algorithm, Bitap algorithm
Ricardo Baeza-Yates is a Chilean researcher and director of the Yahoo! Research labs at Barcelona, Spain and Santiago, Chile. His research...
Andrew Tridgell

Andrew Tridgell

male, 42 years old
Emacs user, University of Sydney alumni, Australian National University alumni, Australian, Protocols, rsync…algorithm
Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell (born February 28, 1967) is an Australian computer programmer best known as the creator of and contributor to the Samba...
David S. Johnson

David S. Johnson

male, 63 years old
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Association for Computing Machinery, fellow, Fellow of the ACM, David Stifler Johnson, Algorithms and Optimization Department…algorithm
David Stifler Johnson (born December 9, 1945) is a computer scientist specializing in algorithms and optimization. He is currently the head of the...
Ian Horrocks

Ian Horrocks

male
ontology language, description logics, ontology languages, algorithm, algorithms, Oxford University Computing Laboratory
Ian Horrocks is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester in the UK. His research focuses on knowledge representation,...
Don Coppersmith

Don Coppersmith

male
Harvard University, Mars, Institute for Defense Analyses, Erdős number 2, Putnam Fellows, block cipher…Coppersmith-Winograd algorithm, algorithm
Don Coppersmith is a cryptographer and mathematician. He was involved in the design of the Data Encryption Standard block cipher at IBM,...
Geoffrey Hinton

Geoffrey Hinton

male
IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, David E. Rumelhart, Neural Networks, Symbol, Applied Mathematics, Informatician…back-propagation algorithm, algorithm
Geoffrey Hinton (December 6, 1947-) is a British born informatician most noted for his work on the mathematics and applications of neural networks,...
Philippe Flajolet

Philippe Flajolet

male, 61 years old
computer scientist, Alumni of the École Polytechnique, French, algorithm, ecole polytechnique, Ph.D.
Philippe (Patrick, Michel) Flajolet is a French computer scientist. A former student of "École Polytechnique", Philippe Flajolet got a Ph.D. in c...
Andrew Odlyzko

Andrew Odlyzko

male
economics of security, Telecommunications Industry, Erdős number 1, combinatorics, Ukrainian-American, computational complexity…algorithm
Andrew Odlyzko is a mathematician who is the head of the University of Minnesota's Digital Technology Center. In the field of mathematics he has...