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Born August 27, 1926 • Oslo • Norway
Died August 10, 2002 (aged 75) • Oslo • Norway
Awards And Honors Turing Award (2001)
Ole-Johan Dahl
Norwegian computer scientist
James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician
Donald Knuth
American mathematician and computer scientist
Kenneth E. Iverson
Canadian mathematician and computer scientist
John Kemeny
American mathematician and computer scientist
Minsky, Marvin
Marvin Minsky
American scientist
Robin Milner.
Robin Milner
British computer scientist
Ken Thompson
American computer scientist
Ritchie, Dennis M.
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist
Richard Karp
Richard Karp
American mathematician and computer scientist
Alan Jay Perlis
American mathematician and computer scientist
Dana Stewart Scott.
Dana Scott
American mathematician, logician, and computer scientist
Robert W Floyd
American computer scientist
Niklaus E. Wirth
Niklaus Emil Wirth
Swiss computer scientist
Tony Hoare
British computer scientist
Peter Naur
Danish astronomer and computer scientist
Alan Kay
American computer scientist
Juris Hartmanis
American mathematician and computer scientist
John McCarthy
American mathematician and computer scientist
Richard E. Stearns
American mathematician and computer scientist

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