Alan Turing

Alan Turing

male, deceased (1954) (london)
computerscientist, computer pioneer, turing machine, British computer scientist, British cryptographer at Bletchley Park, scientist…theoretical computer science, computer designer, father of modern computer science, computer room
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...
David May

David May

male
University of Bristol, Moore's Law, professor, Occam programming language, Formal methods, Academic of the University of Bristol…computer designer, computer hardware engineer, computerscientist
David May is a British chip designer and computer scientist. David May joined the British company INMOS in 1979, based in Bristol. Here he was the...
Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

male, 71 years old (Stanford, California, United States)
computerscientist, Turing Award laureate, mathematician, Emacs user, The Art of Computer Programming, computer pioneer…computer programmer, Computer Modern, theoretical computer science, scientist
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...
Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky

male, 82 years old
artificial intelligence, MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty, Turing Award laureate, Artificial intelligence researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology…computerscientist, Cognitive scientist, computer pioneer, scientist
Marvin Minsky is here critical of many current researchers in artificial intelligence researchers who he feels have gotten bogged down in theories...
John von Neumann

John von Neumann

male, deceased (1957)
genius, universal constructor, convert to Roman Catholicism, Pancreatic cancer death, Bone cancer death, American…computer designer, computerscientist, computer pioneer, scientist
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., U...
Jim Gray

Jim Gray

male, 65 years old
Microsoft Research, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, computerscientist, Terraserver, Turing Award, database
James Nicholas "Jim" Gray (born 1944, lost at sea January 28, 2007) is an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for...
John McCarthy

John McCarthy

male, 82 years old
Turing Award laureate, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, Princeton University, National Medal of Science recipient, mathematical logic, Turing Award…computer pioneer, computerscientist, scientist
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer...
Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper

female, deceased (1992)
Women in the United States Navy, American military personnel of World War II, Harvard Mark I, Programming language designer, Yale University alumni, computer programming…computer bug, computer history, computer pioneer, woman computer scientist, computer programmer
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the...
Paul Graham

Paul Graham

male, 45 years old
Y Combinator, entrepreneur, Lisp Programmer, Viaweb, programming language creator, good writer…computer programmer, computerscientist, Harvard Computer Society
Paul Graham (b. Weymouth, England, 1964) is a Lisp programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is the author of "On Lisp" (1993), "ANSI Common...
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