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David Gries (born April 26, 1939) is an American computer scientist at Cornell University, mainly known for his books The Science of Programming (1981) and A Logical Approach to Discrete Math (1993, with Fred B. Schneider). He was associate dean for undergraduate programs at the Cornell University College of Engineering from 2003–2011.
David Chalmers was born in Sydney, New South Wales, and subsequently grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, where he attended Unley High School. [6] As a child, he experienced synesthesia. [6] He began coding and playing computer games at the age of 10 on a PDP-10 at a medical center. [7]
A power of two program running in a CARDIAC emulator. The program outputs 1, 2, 4, 8, …, 512 and halts after 277 steps. CARDIAC (CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation) is a learning aid developed by David Hagelbarger and Saul Fingerman for Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1968 to teach high school students how computers work.
The Economist's review says The Beginning of Infinity is "equally bold" as Deutsch's previous book The Fabric of Reality, and "its conclusions are just as profound. Mr Deutsch argues that decent explanations inform moral philosophy, political philosophy and even aesthetics. He is provocative and persuasive."
David Hillel Gelernter (born March 5, 1955) is an American computer scientist, artist, and writer. He is a professor of computer science at Yale University . Gelernter is known for contributions to parallel computation in the 1980s, and for books on topics such as computed worlds ( Mirror Worlds ).
His most recent book is with Andrew Waterman on the open architecture RISC-V: The RISC-V Reader: An Open Architecture Atlas (1st Edition) (ISBN 978-0999249109). His articles include: Patterson, David; Ditzel, David (1980). "The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer" (PDF). ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News. 8 (6): 5–33.
David Garvin Moursund (November 3, 1936 – September 1, 2021) was an American mathematician, computer scientist, author and educator. From 2002 until his death, he was a Professor Emeritus in the College of Education at the University of Oregon .
David William Barron FBCS (9 January 1935 – 2 January 2012) was a British academic in Physics and Computer Science who was described in the Times Higher Education magazine as one of the "founding fathers" of computer science.