People of Import in Computer Science

• John Backus
  • Wikipedia
  • HistOry of Companies
  • ACM Turing Award
  • Father of Fortran
• E F Codd
  • Wikipedia
  • ACM Turing Award
  • E.F. Codd’s 12 Rules for RDBMS
  • The Relational Databases of Edgar Codd
• Donald Knuth
  • Stanford web page (where he is Professor Emeritus)
  • Wikipedia
  • WikiQuotes
  • More quotes
  • xkcd
  • ACM Turing Award
  • Brief biography
  • Amazon -- Knuth books
  • Article about reading "The Art of Computer Programming""
  • Overleaf (One of many online TeX services for collaboration)
• Marvin Minsky
  • His Home Page
  • Wikipedia
  • Quotes
  • ACM Turing Award
  • Ted Talk
• Richard Stallman
  • Fundamental idea: Free as in beer

    In a nutshell, the word "free" has a couple of meanings and it's 
    not always possible to tell in context which one the user meant. 
    "Free as in beer" refers to the cost (i.e. money) of the software, 
    while "free as in speech" refers to what you are allowed to do with 
    the software.
    

  • His personal Page
  • Wikipedia
  • WikiQuote
  • GNU Project
  • Free Software Foundation

• NIKLAUS E. WIRTH
  • Wikipedia
  • Wirth's Law
  • Pascal, Modula, Modula-2
  • ACM Turing Award
  • WikiQuote
  • Books at Amazon