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Born April 1, 1922 • Pittsburgh • Pennsylvania
Died February 7, 1990 (aged 67) • New Haven • Connecticut
Awards And Honors Turing Award (1966)
Subjects Of Study ALGOL • Pascal • compiler • computer programming language • software
Niklaus E. Wirth
Niklaus Emil Wirth
Swiss computer scientist
Tony Hoare
British computer scientist
John Warner Backus
American mathematician
Robin Milner.
Robin Milner
British computer scientist
Peter Naur
Danish astronomer and computer scientist
Margaret Hamilton
Margaret Hamilton
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
Fred Brooks
American computer scientist
Ken Thompson
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Adleman, Leonard M.
Leonard M. Adleman
American computer scientist
Ritchie, Dennis M.
Dennis M. Ritchie
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Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Sutherland
American electrical engineer and computer scientist
Robert W Floyd
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Frances E. Allen
Frances E. Allen
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Fernando Corbató
American physicist and computer scientist
Donald Knuth
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Alan Kay
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Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov
American computer scientist
Edmund M. Clarke
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American mathematician and computer scientist

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