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Born May 30, 1925 • Charlotte • North Carolina
Died July 16, 2002 (aged 77) • New York
Awards And Honors National Medal of Science (1994) • Turing Award (1984)
Subjects Of Study RISC • compiler • computer architecture
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
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Fred Brooks
American computer scientist
Richard Karp
Richard Karp
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Donald Knuth
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John McCarthy
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Minsky, Marvin
Marvin Minsky
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Dana Stewart Scott.
Dana Scott
American mathematician, logician, and computer scientist
Alan Jay Perlis
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Frances E. Allen
Frances E. Allen
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Juris Hartmanis
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Richard E. Stearns
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Richard Wesley Hamming
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Allen Newell
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Charles Bachman
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Ritchie, Dennis M.
Dennis M. Ritchie
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Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
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John Warner Backus
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Robin Milner.
Robin Milner
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James H. Wilkinson
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