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Born January 12, 1944 • San Francisco • California
Died January 28, 2007? • near San Francisco • California
Awards And Honors Turing Award (1998)
Subjects Of Study database • transaction processing
Butler W. Lampson
computer scientist
Fred Brooks
American computer scientist
Robert Endre Tarjan
American computer scientist
Charles P. Thacker
American computer scientist
William Kahan
Canadian mathematician and computer scientist
Lamport, Leslie
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
Ken Thompson
American computer scientist
Charles Bachman
American computer scientist
Ritchie, Dennis M.
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist
Stonebraker, Michael
Michael Stonebraker
American computer engineer
Richard Karp
Richard Karp
American mathematician and computer scientist
Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
Chinese American computer scientist
Robert W Floyd
American computer scientist
John Hopcroft
American computer scientist
Niklaus E. Wirth
Niklaus Emil Wirth
Swiss computer scientist
Tony Hoare
British computer scientist
Raj Reddy
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Bill Gates
Bill Gates
American computer programmer, businessman, and philanthropist
Ellison, Larry
Larry Ellison
American business executive
Paul Allen
Paul Allen
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