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Born March 19, 1927 • San Francisco • California
Died July 19, 1992 (aged 65) • Pittsburgh • Pennsylvania
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (1992) • Turing Award (1975)
Rodney Brooks
Australian-American scientist
John McCarthy
American mathematician and computer scientist
Ray Kurzweil
American computer scientist and futurist
Minsky, Marvin
Marvin Minsky
American scientist
Judea Pearl
Israeli-American computer scientist
Richard Karp
Richard Karp
American mathematician and computer scientist
Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
American social scientist
Donald Knuth
American mathematician and computer scientist
John Warner Backus
American mathematician
John Cocke
American mathematician and computer scientist
Alan Turing
Alan Turing
British mathematician and logician
Geoffrey Hinton
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist
Maurice Wilkes
Maurice Wilkes
British computer scientist
Peter Naur
Danish astronomer and computer scientist
Raj Reddy
Indian computer scientist
Joseph Weizenbaum
American computer scientist
Ellison, Larry
Larry Ellison
American business executive
Paul Allen
Paul Allen
American investor and philanthropist
John M. Jumper
John M. Jumper
American computer scientist
Edward Feigenbaum
Edward Albert Feigenbaum
American computer scientist

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