W. Daniel Hillis

W. Daniel Hillis

male, 53 years old
inventor, computer, computer pioneer, Long Now Foundation, parallel, parallel computing…Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
William Daniel "Danny" Hillis (born September 25, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American inventor, entrepreneur, and author. He co-founded...
Jeff Rulifson

Jeff Rulifson

male, 68 years old
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Association for Computing Machinery, fellow, Request for comment, video conferencing, Augmentation Research Center
Johns F. (Jeff) Rulifson (born August 20, 1941) is a computer scientist largely known for his involvement at the Augmentation Research Center, at...
J Strother Moore

J Strother Moore

male
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Association for Computing Machinery, fellow, automated deduction, Pentium FDIV bug, Herbrand Award
J Strother Moore is a computer scientist, and is co-developer of the Boyer-Moore string search algorithm and the Boyer-Moore automated theorem...
Rudi Studer

Rudi Studer

male, 58 years old
Journal of Web Semantics, SEKT, knowledge management, professor, university of karlsruhe, AIFB…Association for Computing Machinery
Rudi Studer (born 1951 in Stuttgart) is a German computer scientist and professor at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He is the head of the...
Fred Brooks

Fred Brooks

male, 78 years old
software engineer, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Harvard University alumni, International Business Machines, Doctor of Philosophy, Turing Award
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of...
Rodney Brooks

Rodney Brooks

male, 54 years old
robotics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Roboticist, MIT, Australian, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory…Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
Rodney Allen Brooks (b. December 30, 1954 in Adelaide) is Panasonic Professor of Robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Chief...
Ivan Sutherland

Ivan Sutherland

male, 71 years old
computer scientist, Virtual reality pioneer, Computer graphics professionals, virtual reality, graphical user interface, Harvard University…Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Association for Computing Machinery
Ivan Edward Sutherland (born 1938 in Hastings, Nebraska) is a computer programmer and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award in 1988 for...
David A. Thomas

David A. Thomas

male
computer scientist, Visual Age Java, David Thomas, Integrated Development Environment, Association for Computing Machinery, eclipse
David A. Thomas is a well-known figure in modern software development and object technology. Thomas took undergraduate (1969) and graduate (1976)...
Niklaus Wirth

Niklaus Wirth

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

Cleve Moler

male
matlab, Cleve Barry Moler, The MathWorks, Stanford University alumni, Kathryn Ann Moler, Erdős number 3…Association for Computing Machinery
Cleve Barry Moler is a mathematician and computer programmer specializing in numerical analysis. In the mid to late 1970s, he was one of the...