Competitive/Collaborative Programming Class

Person of the day

• Donald Knuth
  • Stanford web page (where he is Professor Emeritus)
  • Wikipedia
  • Art of Computer Programming
  • WikiQuotes
  • More quotes
  • xkcd
  • ACM Turing Award
  • Brief biography
  • Books
  • Amazon -- Knuth books
  • Kindle Store
  • Articles about "The Art of Computer Programming"
    • The Art Of Computer Programming - A Great Present
    • Reflections on a year of reading Knuth
    • Hacker News
  • Overleaf (One of many online TeX services for collaboration)

Person of the day

• Andrew Sorenson
  • Andrew Sorensen Keynote: "The Concert Programmer" - OSCON 2014
  • Impromptu
  • Extempore
  • Impromptu Web Site
  • Google Scholar

Person of the day

• 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

Person of the day

• Niklaus Wirth
  • Wikipedia
  • Wirth's Law
  • Pascal, Modula, Modula-2
  • ACM Turing Award
  • WikiQuote
  • Books at Amazon

Person of the day

• Robert Metcalfe
  • Designer of ethernet
  • Founded 3com
  • wikipedia
  • Metcalfe's law - the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n²)
  • The History of Ethernet
  • Living legends: Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe
  • The birth and rise of Ethernet: A history
  • Awards:
    • IEEE Medal of Honor
    • Member of National Academy of Engineering

Person of the day

• 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
  • local copy of "goto considered harmful".

ICPC North America Virtual Career Fair

Register with the Career Fair Plus Platform to learn more about these employers, and take advantage of this opportunity (internships, jobs).

To participate, you must REGISTER with CAREER FAIR PLUS before the booking window closes on October 26, 2022:

1. Open the CF+ mobile app or visit Smart Link: https://cfplus.page.link/QJSa
2. Click on "2022 ICPC North America Career Fair"
3. Browse employers
4. Click the employer you want to meet and book a time to learn more

Please upload a copy of your resume to your profile. This is important so recruiters can help match you with opportunities aligned with your interests.

Person of the day

• John McCarthy
  • LISP creator
  • ALGOL Contributor
  • Part of the early AI Founders
    • Alan Turing
    • Marvin Minsky
    • Allen Newell
    • Herbert A. Simon
  • wikipedia
  • wikiquote
  • Awards:
  • Turing Award
  • Computer Pioneer Award
  • IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
  • Kyoto Prize
  • National Medal of Science

Person of the day

• 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

• Dennis Ritchie
  • Wikipedia
  • Creations (co)
    • B programming language
    • C programming language
    • Unix
  • 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

• Brian Kernigham
  • Known for:
    • The C Programming Language
    • AWK
    • K&R
    • Kernighan–Lin algorithm
  • wikipedia
  • wikiquote

Person of the day

Person of the day

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