Pioneers Of Computing And Information Theory
18 entries in the Pioneers Of Computing And Information Theory compendium.
John McCarthy (computer scientist)Founding father of artificial intelligence and creator of Lisp.John Vincent AtanasoffAmerican physicist who invented the first electronic digital computer.John von NeumannMathematician and physicist who shaped quantum theory and computing.Ken ThompsonAmerican computer scientist who created Unix and co-developed Go.Konrad ZuseGerman engineer who built the first programmable computer, the Z3.Kristen NygaardCo-inventor of object-oriented programming and Simula.Leslie LamportAmerican computer scientist and mathematician; developed LaTeX and distributed systems theory.Linus TorvaldsFinnish-American engineer who created the Linux kernel and the Git version control system.Margaret Hamilton (software engineer)Led Apollo flight software development; coined 'software engineering'.Marvin MinskyAmerican mathematician and co-founder of artificial intelligence.Maurice WilkesEnglish computer scientist who built EDSAC and invented microprogramming.Niklaus WirthSwiss computer scientist who designed several programming languages, including Pascal.Norbert WienerOriginator of cybernetics and early theorist of machine intelligence.Paul BaranCo-inventor of packet switching; designed survivable distributed networks.Ray TomlinsonThe BBN programmer who sent the first networked email and gave addresses their @ sign.Richard StallmanFree software movement activist and programmer.Robert Kahn (computer scientist)Co-inventor of TCP/IP, the Internet's core protocols.Claude ShannonPolymath who founded information theory and digital circuit design.
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