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People of Import in Computer Science

John Backus

Stephen Bourne
- Wikipedia
- Bourne Shell (wikipedia)
- Macros from SH
- Algol 68
- Advanced Debugger

Vint Cerf
- Network design, TCP/IP
- wikipedia
- wikiquote
- Awards:
- Fellow of the ACM
- Turing Award

E F Codd

Edsger W. Dijkstra
- Famous for
  - He coined the phrase structured programming
  - goto considered harmful
  - Algorithms
    - Dijkstra's algorithm
    - DJP algorithm
    - Dijkstra-Scholten algorithm
    - Dekker's algorithm (generalization)
    - banker's algorithm
    - smoothsort
    - shunting-yard algorithm
    - tri-color marking algorithm
    - concurrent algorithms
    - distributed algorithms
    - deadlock prevention algorithms
    - mutual exclusion algorithms
    - self-stabilizing algorithms
- wikipedia
- wikiquote
- Awards:
  - Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  - Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society
  - The Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award
  - Harry H. Goode Memorial Award from the IEEE Computer Society
  - Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  - Doctor of Science Honoris Causa from the Queen's University Belfast
  - Computer Pioneer Charter Recipient from the IEEE Computer Society
  - ACM/SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education
  - Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery

James Gosling
- Programming languages, Java
- wikipedia
- Awards:
- Fellow of the ACM
- IEEE John von Neumann Medal
- The Flame Award USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award

Tony Hoare
- Programming languages, ALGOL-W, Quicksort, CSP, Hoare logic
- wikipedia
- wikiquote
- Awards:
- Turing Award

Kenneth Iverson
- wikipedia
- wikiquote
- Awards:
  - IBM Fellow, IBM
  - Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, IEEE Computer Society
  - Member, National Academy of Engineering (USA)
  - Turing Award, Association for Computing Machinery
  - Computer Pioneer Award (Charter recipient), IEEE Computer Society

Alan Kay

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)

Tim Berners-Lee
- Network design, World Wide Web, HTTP
- wikipedia
- wikiquote
- Cool URIs don't change
- Awards:
- Knighted by Queen Elizabeth
- Turing Award

Dennis Ritchie
- Wikipedia
- Creations (co)
- Awards: Turing Award, IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, Fellows of the Computer History Museum, National Medal of Technology, Japan Prize for Information and Communications
- Wikiquote

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

Andrew S. Tanenbaum
- Operating Systems, Minix, Linux,
- wikipedia
- wikiquote

Ken Thompson
- Creator/co-creator of Unix, B (predecessor of C), GO, Plan 9, QED, ed, utf-8,
- grep
- Lot of work on regular expressions
- Wikipedia
- Awards include: Turing Award, IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, Fellow of the Computer History Museum, National Medal of Technology, Tsutomu Kanai Award, Japan Prize
- Chess
  - Creation of endgame tablebase
  - Creator of Belle
  - Wrote "chess" for Unix (early chess program)
- Wikiquote

Alan Turing

Niklaus Wirth

Competitive/Collaborative Programming Class

ICPC Computer Programming Contest Prep

Problem Solving in Computer Science

Spring 2021 -- CSC 2700 Section 01 (100 Tureaud Hall, 6:30 PM - 8:20 PM)

People of Import in Computer Science