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Pioneer of mainframe computing; designed IBM 704; chief architect of IBM System/360. [4] [5] Formulated Amdahl's law; also worked on IBM 709 and IBM 7030 Stretch. [6] 1939 Atanasoff, John: Built the first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer, though it was neither programmable nor Turing-complete. 1822, 1837 Babbage, Charles
John Alan Robinson (9 March 1930 – 5 August 2016) was a philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist.He was a professor emeritus at Syracuse University.. Alan Robinson's major contribution is to the foundations of automated theorem proving.
The history of computer science began long before the modern discipline of computer science, usually appearing in forms like mathematics or physics. Developments in previous centuries alluded to the discipline that we now know as computer science. [ 1 ]
Robert Anthony Kowalski (born 15 May 1941) is an American-British logician and computer scientist, whose research is concerned with developing both human-oriented models of computing and computational models of human thinking. [1] He has spent most of his career in the United Kingdom.
Edward Albert Feigenbaum (born January 20, 1936) is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence, and joint winner of the 1994 ACM Turing Award. [4] He is often called the "father of expert systems." [5] [6] [7] [8]
Donald Knuth was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Ervin Henry Knuth and Louise Marie Bohning. [6] He describes his heritage as "Midwestern Lutheran German". [7]: 66 His father owned a small printing business and taught bookkeeping. [8] While a student at Milwaukee Lutheran High School, Knuth thought of ingenious ways to solve problems. For ...
The History of Computing by J.A.N. Lee "Things that Count: the rise and fall of calculators" The History of Computing Project; SIG on Computers, Information and Society of the Society for the History of Technology; The Modern History of Computing; A Chronology of Digital Computing Machines (to 1952) by Mark Brader
Computer Pioneers. IEEE. ISBN 0-8186-6357-X. (the two Lee books are likely the same book, one printed in the U.S, the other in England) Lee, J.A.N. (1995). International Biographical Dictionary of Computer Pioneers. Routledge. ISBN 1-884964-47-8. Mims, Forrest M., III (1986). Siliconnections: Coming of Age in the Electronic Era.