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Born February 11, 1915 • Chicago • Illinois
Died January 7, 1998 (aged 82) • Monterey • California
Awards And Honors Turing Award (1968)
Minsky, Marvin
Marvin Minsky
American scientist
Richard Karp
Richard Karp
American mathematician and computer scientist
Dana Stewart Scott.
Dana Scott
American mathematician, logician, and computer scientist
Donald Knuth
American mathematician and computer scientist
Juris Hartmanis
American mathematician and computer scientist
John McCarthy
American mathematician and computer scientist
Richard E. Stearns
American mathematician and computer scientist
John Cocke
American mathematician and computer scientist
James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician
Kenneth E. Iverson
Canadian mathematician and computer scientist
Kristen Nygaard
Norwegian mathematician and computer scientist
William Kahan
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John von Neumann
John von Neumann
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Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper
United States naval officer and mathematician
Evelyn Granville
Evelyn Granville
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John Vincent Atanasoff
American mathematician and physicist
Howard Aiken
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John Kemeny
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Vinton Gray Cerf
Vinton Cerf
American computer scientist
Computer interface pioneer Douglas EngelbartEngelbart holding a video conference on the right side of the computer screen while working on a document with a remote collaborator during a 1968 computer conference in San Francisco, California.
Douglas Engelbart
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