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Alan Mathison Turing
(23 June 1912 - 7 June 1954) English computer scientist known as the "father of computer science"; inventor of a famous test, which is used as a empirical basis for what makes a computer a computer
Alan Turing helped invent the "Tunny" machine which cracked the Germans "Enigma machine" encryption code during World War II.
Andy Grove
(born 2 September 1936)Hungarian-American Chairman of Intel Corporation during much of its rapid financial growth in the 1980's and 1990's
The Wall Street spokesman said that Andy Grove is not just a great scientist, but a financial genius as well.
Bill Gates
(born October 28, 1955) American founder of Microsoft Corporation and developer of Windows; he was the richest man in the world for many years before he gave away a lot of hiswealth to charity.
The boy told his mother he wanted to be as rich as Bill Gates.
Bjarne Stroustrup
(born December 30, 1950) Danish inventor of the C++ programming language
Bjarne Stroustrup's non-research interests include general history, light literature, photography, hiking and running, travel, and music.
Charles Babbage
(December 26, 1791 - October 18, 1871) English mathematician,analytical philosopher who drew up plans for the first programmable computer called the Difference Engine
Charles Babbage would likely be overwhelmed at the power of a typical desktop computer today.
Dennis Ritchie
(born September 9, 1941) American inventor of the C programming language
Without the C programming language being as good as it was, it is likely that Unix would have not gained suchwidespread popularity.
Edgar Frank Codd
(August 23, 1923 - April 18, 2003) English computer scientist known for his work in inventing the "relational model" for databases, which is still in use today
Edgar Frank Codd was known for pressuring IBM to introduce RBDMs to its customers, which later provided huge benefits to everyone.
George Boole
(2 November 1815 - 8 December 1864) Englishmathematician and philosopher who invented the boolen value
All modern computers owe a debt to George Boole's algebraic calculations.
Gordon Moore
(born January 3, 1929) American co-founder of Intel Corporation and the author of a law later named after him which predicts the speed increase of integrated circuits over time
In 2001, Gordon Moore donated $600 million to Caltech, the largest gift ever toan institution of higher education.
Guido van Rossum
(born Jan 31, 1956) Dutch inventor of the Python programming language
Guido van Rossum has been working at Google since 2005, where he is allowed to spend half his day improving the Python language.
James Gosling
(born May 19, 1955) Canadian computer scientist known as the father of the Java langage.
James Gosling earned a Ph.D in ComputerScience from Carnegie Mellon University with a doctoral thesis entitled, "The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints"
John Warner Backus
(December 3, 1924 - March 17, 2007) American computer scientist known for leading the team who invented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language
John Warner Backus was famous in computer circles for inventing FORTRAN, as well as his formallanguage definition called the Backus-Naur form (BNF).
Ken Thompson
(born February 4, 1943) American co-inventor of the Unix Operating system in 1969 while working for AT&T; he also invented the 'B' programming language and worked on the UTF-8 character set
Ken Thompson wrote many books including 1995's "Plan 9 from Bell Labs."
Larry Wall
(born September 27, 1954) American programmer andauthor, most widely known for his creation of the Perl programming language in 1987.
Larry Wall oversees development of Perl and serves as the Benevolent Dictator for Life of the Perl project.
Linus Torvalds
(born December 28, 1969) Finnish creator of the Linux operating system in 1991; his motivation was to create a Unix-like Operating System for the x86 processor as an alternative to...