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Mikhail Botvinnik – World Chess Champion, computer scientist, electrical engineer, pioneered early expert system AI and computer chess; Jonathan Bowen – Z notation, formal methods; Stephen R. Bourne – Bourne shell, portable ALGOL 68C compiler; Harry Bouwman (born 1953) – Dutch Information systems researcher, professor at Åbo Akademi ...
Led team that defined a simple text file format for Internet host names, which became the Domain Name System; her group became the naming authority for the top-level domains of .mil, .gov, .edu, .org, and .com 1943 Flowers, Tommy: Designed and built the Mark I Colossus computer, the world's first programmable, digital, electronic, computing devices
Andrew P. Sage (1933–2014), School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University; recipient of the 2000 Simon Ramo Medal for outstanding contributions to the field of systems engineering; [1] series editor of a textbook series on systems engineering and management for John Wiley & Son [2]
This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. All entries must already have associated articles. Some persons notable as computer scientists are included here because they work in program as well as research.
Harry H. Goode (1909–1960) American computer engineer and systems engineer and professor at University of Michigan. Until his death his was president of the National Joint Computer Committee (NJCC). He wrote the famous System Engineering Handbook together with Robert Engel Machol. Brian Goodwin (1931–2009) Canadian mathematician and biologist
Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum, computer critic; Kevin Warwick, cyborg scientist, implant self-experimenter; Niklaus Wirth, developed Pascal; Peter J. Weinberger, co-developer of the AWK language; Sophie Wilson, designer of the ARM instruction set; Stephen Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Research, physicist, software developer, mathematician
Tim Berners-Lee – engineer, computer scientist and inventor of the World Wide Web; recipient of OU honorary doctorate [23] Mary Beard – classicist and television presenter (honorary graduate) Gordon Brown – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (honorary doctorate) Cerrie Burnell – actress, author and former television presenter ...
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