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Born April 1, 1922 • Pittsburgh • Pennsylvania
Died February 7, 1990 (aged 67) • New Haven • Connecticut
Awards And Honors Turing Award (1966)
Subjects Of Study ALGOL • Pascal • compiler • computer programming language • software
Niklaus E. Wirth
Niklaus Emil Wirth
Swiss computer scientist
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Tony Hoare
British computer scientist
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John Warner Backus
American mathematician
Robin Milner.
Robin Milner
British computer scientist
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Peter Naur
Danish astronomer and computer scientist
Computer interface pioneer Douglas EngelbartEngelbart holding a video conference on the right side of the computer screen while working on a document with a remote collaborator during a 1968 computer conference in San Francisco, California.
Douglas Engelbart
American inventor
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Ken Thompson
American computer scientist
Adleman, Leonard M.
Leonard M. Adleman
American computer scientist
Ritchie, Dennis M.
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist
Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Sutherland
American electrical engineer and computer scientist
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Robert W Floyd
American computer scientist
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Fernando Corbató
American physicist and computer scientist
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Donald Knuth
American mathematician and computer scientist
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Alan Kay
American computer scientist
Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov
American computer scientist
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Edmund M. Clarke
American computer scientist
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John Cocke
American mathematician and computer scientist
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James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician
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Adi Shamir
Israeli cryptographer
Joseph Sifakis, winner of the 2007 A.M. Turing Award in computer science.
Joseph Sifakis
French computer scientist

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