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Notable Honorees Douglas Engelbart • Maurice Wilkes • Vinton Cerf • Marvin Minsky • Robert Kahn • Allen Newell • Leslie Valiant • Leslie Lamport • Robin Milner • Fred Brooks • Judea Pearl • Michael Oser Rabin • Ken Thompson • James Nicholas Gray • Dennis M. Ritchie • Leonard M. Adleman • Alan Jay Perlis • James H. Wilkinson • Charles Bachman • Michael Stonebraker • Dana Scott • Ivan Sutherland • Edgar Frank Codd • Ronald L. Rivest • Richard Karp • Andrew Chi-Chih Yao • Manuel Blum • Herbert A. Simon • Robert W Floyd • Charles P. Thacker • Robert Endre Tarjan • Frances E. Allen • Adi Shamir • Niklaus Emil Wirth • Fernando Corbató • Peter Naur • Raj Reddy • Juris Hartmanis • Tony Hoare • Joseph Sifakis • Butler W. Lampson • Barbara Liskov • John McCarthy • Kristen Nygaard • John Hopcroft • Richard E. Stearns • John Warner Backus • Amir Pnueli • Stephen Arthur Cook • Edmund M. Clarke • John Cocke • E. Allen Emerson • Geoffrey Hinton • William Kahan • Alan Kay • Richard Wesley Hamming • Donald Knuth • Kenneth E. Iverson • Ole-Johan Dahl

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