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Born April 22, 1941 • Israel
Died November 2, 2009 (aged 68) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Turing Award (1996)
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Douglas Engelbart
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American mathematician and computer scientist
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Fernando Corbató
American physicist and computer scientist
Joseph Sifakis, winner of the 2007 A.M. Turing Award in computer science.
Joseph Sifakis
French computer scientist
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Edmund M. Clarke
American computer scientist
Shai Agassi, 2008.
Shai Agassi
Israeli entrepreneur
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Judea Pearl
Israeli-American computer scientist
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Michael Oser Rabin
Israeli American mathematician
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Adi Shamir
Israeli cryptographer
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Bill Gates
American computer programmer and entrepreneur
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Bill Joy
American software developer and entrepreneur
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Ray Kurzweil
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Jack Dorsey
Jack Dorsey
American Web developer and entrepreneur
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Tim Berners-Lee
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Pattie Maes
Belgian-born software engineer and entrepreneur
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist
Vinton Gray Cerf
Vinton Cerf
American computer scientist
Maurice Wilkes
Maurice Wilkes
British computer scientist
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Marvin Minsky
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