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Developed Chomsky hierarchy, directly impacting programming language theory and other branches of computer science. 1936 Church, Alonzo: Made fundamental contributions to theoretical computer science, specifically in the development of computability theory in the form of lambda calculus.
Mung Chiang was born on February 2, 1977, in Tianjin, China. [2] In 1988, when Mung Chiang was 11 years old, his family went to Hong Kong to live with his grandmother. He re-took the fifth grade of primary school at Tak Sun School (德信學校), a full-time Catholic school for boys, and taught himself Cantonese, Traditional Chinese, and English.
Norman E. Gibbs (November 27, 1941 – April 25, 2002) was an American software engineer, scholar and educational leader.. He studied to a B.Sc. in mathematics at Ursinus College (1964) and M.Sc. (1966) and Ph.D. (1969) in Computer Science at Purdue University, advised by Robert R. Korfhage.
Mary Kenneth Keller, B.V.M. (December 17, 1913 – January 10, 1985) was an American Catholic religious sister, educator and pioneer in computer science.She was one of the first people, and the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States.
Based on his study and The Art of Computer Programming book, Knuth decided the next time someone asked he would say, "Analysis of algorithms". [25] In 1969, Knuth left his position at Princeton to join the Stanford University faculty, [26] where he became Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science in 1977. He became Professor of The Art of ...
Fifth grade (also 5th Grade or Grade 5) is the fifth or sixth year of formal or compulsory education. In the United States, this is mostly the last grade of primary school, but for some states, it could be the first year of middle school. Primary school generally goes from Kindergarten and ends in fifth or sixth grade. Students in fifth grade ...
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Maurice Nivat – theoretical computer science, Theoretical Computer Science journal, ALGOL, IFIP WG 2.1 member; Jerre Noe – computerized banking; Peter Nordin – artificial intelligence, genetic programming, evolutionary robotics; Donald Norman – user interfaces, usability; Peter Norvig – artificial intelligence, Director of Research at ...