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Vinton Gray Cerf
Vinton Cerf
American computer scientist
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Lawrence Roberts
American computer scientist
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian cognitive psychologist 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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Leonard Kleinrock
American computer scientist
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J.C.R. Licklider
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