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After the second world war he established the Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester where he created the project that built the world's first stored-program computer, the Manchester Baby. 1962 Nygaard, Kristen: With Ole-Johan Dahl, invented the proto-object oriented language SIMULA. 1642 Pascal, Blaise
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 ...
Leonard Adleman – co-created RSA algorithm (being the A in that name), coined the term computer virus; Alfred Aho – co-created AWK (being the A in that name), and main author of famous Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (Dragon book) Andrei Alexandrescu – author, expert on languages C++, D
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
Gordon Earle Moore (January 3, 1929 – March 24, 2023) was an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation.He proposed Moore's law which makes the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.
This list of computer science awards is an index to articles on notable awards related to computer science. It includes lists of awards by the Association for Computing Machinery , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , other computer science and information science awards, and a list of computer science competitions.
Mark E. Dean (born March 2, 1957) [1] is an American inventor and computer engineer. He developed the ISA bus with his partner Dennis Moeller, and he led a design team for making a one-gigahertz computer processor chip. [2] He holds three of nine PC patents for being the co-creator of the IBM personal computer released in 1981. [3]
Grace Brewster Hopper (née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. [1] She was a pioneer of computer programming.