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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 ...
Lynn Ann Conway (January 2, 1938 – June 9, 2024) was an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender activist.. In the 1960s, while working at IBM, Conway invented generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advancement used in out-of-order execution, used by most modern computer processors to improve performance.
Israeli-American electrical engineer [11] Paddy Bassett: 1918–2019: 101: New Zealand agricultural scientist [12] Preston Bassett: 1892–1992: 100: American inventor and aeronautics pioneer [13] Henry Beachell: 1906–2006: 100: American developer of "miracle rice" [14] Wilfried de Beauclair: 1912–2020: 108: Swiss-born German engineer and ...
Margaret Hamilton – Director of Software Engineering Division of MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the space Apollo program; Brian Harris – machine translation research, Canada's first computer-assisted translation course, natural translation theory, community interpreting (Critical Link)
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.
Barbara Bekins — hydrologist and National Academy of Engineering fellow [83] Daniel W. Bradley — co-discoverer of Hepatitis C [84] Sarah Clatterbuck — computer engineer [85] Ray Dolby — engineer, founder of Dolby Laboratories (studied two years at SJSU; graduated from Stanford University) [2] Dian Fossey — ethologist and gorilla ...
Born in Khartoum, Sudan, he received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984 and 1982 respectively, and his B.Tech degree in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1981.