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Born February 11, 1915 • Chicago • Illinois
Died January 7, 1998 (aged 82) • Monterey • California
Awards And Honors Turing Award (1968)
Minsky, Marvin
Marvin Minsky
American mathematician and computer scientist
Richard Karp
Richard Karp
American mathematician and computer scientist
Dana Stewart Scott.
Dana Scott
American mathematician, logician, and computer scientist
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Donald Knuth
American mathematician and computer scientist
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Juris Hartmanis
American mathematician and computer scientist
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John McCarthy
American mathematician and computer scientist
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Richard E. Stearns
American mathematician and 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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Kenneth E. Iverson
Canadian mathematician and computer scientist
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Kristen Nygaard
Norwegian mathematician and computer scientist
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William Kahan
Canadian mathematician and computer scientist
John von Neumann
John von Neumann
American mathematician
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
United States naval officer and mathematician
Evelyn Granville
Evelyn Granville
American mathematician
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Howard Aiken
American mathematician and inventor
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John Kemeny
American mathematician and computer scientist
Vinton Gray Cerf
Vinton Cerf
American 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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Robert Kahn
American computer scientist

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