Pierre Jaquet-Droz

Pierre Jaquet-Droz

male, deceased (1790)
Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721-1790) was a Swiss-born watchmaker of the late eighteenth century. He lived in Paris, London, and Geneva, where he designed...
Seymour Ginsburg

Seymour Ginsburg

male, deceased (2004)
Seymour Ginsburg (1928-2004) was a pioneer of automata theory, formal language theory, and database theory in particular; and computer science in...
Philip Mirowski

Philip Mirowski

male
Philip Mirowski is a historian and philosopher of economic thought at the University of Notre Dame. In his book "More Heat than Light", Mirowski...
Sheila Greibach

Sheila Greibach

female, 70 years old
Sheila Greibach (1939-) is a researcher in formal languages, automata, compiler theory in particular; and computer science in general. She is...
Henri Maillardet

Henri Maillardet

male, 264 years old
Henri Maillardet (1745-?) was a Swiss mechanician of the 18th century who worked in London producing clocks and other mechanisms. He spent a period...
Villard de Honnecourt

Villard de Honnecourt

male
Villard de Honnecourt lived in 13th century France and may have been an itinerant master-builder of Picardy in northern France. His fame rests...
Conrad Dasypodius

Conrad Dasypodius

male
Conrad Dasypodius (born circa 1530-1532, died April 26, 1600) was a professor of mathematics in Strasbourg, Alsace. His first name was also...
Tommaso Francini

Tommaso Francini

deceased (1651)
Tommaso Francini, Thomas Francine in France, (1571 — 1651) and his younger brother Alessandro Francini (Alexandre Francine in France) were Fl...
Manuel de Landa

Manuel de Landa

male, 57 years old
Manuel DeLanda, (born 1952 in Mexico City), is a writer, artist and distinguished philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. He is an...
Joseph Nechvatal

Joseph Nechvatal

male, 58 years old
Joseph Nechvatal (born 1951) is a post-conceptual digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer...