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Born December 3, 1924 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Died March 17, 2007 (aged 82) • Ashland • Oregon
Awards And Honors Draper Prize (1993) • Turing Award (1977) • National Medal of Science (1975)
Inventions FORTRAN
Subjects Of Study ALGOL • FORTRAN
Alan Jay Perlis
American mathematician and computer scientist
Donald Knuth
American mathematician and computer scientist
James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician
Niklaus E. Wirth
Niklaus Emil Wirth
Swiss computer scientist
Tony Hoare
British computer scientist
Ken Thompson
American computer scientist
Ritchie, Dennis M.
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist
Robert W Floyd
American computer scientist
Frances E. Allen
Frances E. Allen
American computer scientist
Alan Kay
American computer scientist
Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov
American computer scientist
Vinton Gray Cerf
Vinton Cerf
American computer scientist
Leonard Kleinrock
American computer scientist
Robert Kahn
American computer scientist
Allen Newell
American computer scientist
Richard Karp
Richard Karp
American mathematician and computer scientist
Herbert A. Simon
Herbert A. Simon
American social scientist
John McCarthy
American mathematician and computer scientist
John Cocke
American mathematician and computer scientist
Robin Milner.
Robin Milner
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