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Born May 30, 1925 • Charlotte • North Carolina
Died July 16, 2002 (aged 77) • New York
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (1994) • Turing Award (1984)
Subjects Of Study RISC • compiler • computer architecture
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
United States naval officer and mathematician
Fred Brooks
American computer scientist
Richard Karp
Richard Karp
American mathematician and computer scientist
Donald Knuth
American mathematician and computer scientist
John McCarthy
American mathematician and computer scientist
Minsky, Marvin
Marvin Minsky
American scientist
Dana Stewart Scott.
Dana Scott
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Alan Jay Perlis
American mathematician and computer scientist
Frances E. Allen
Frances E. Allen
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Juris Hartmanis
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Richard E. Stearns
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Richard Wesley Hamming
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Allen Newell
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Charles Bachman
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Ritchie, Dennis M.
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist
Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
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John Warner Backus
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Robin Milner.
Robin Milner
British computer scientist
James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician
Tony Hoare
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