- Joe Armstrong
- Co-creator of the Erlang language
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The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.
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- Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018
- "The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong
- Dr. Isaac Asimov
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- Three Laws of Robotics
- Prolific writer of Science, Science Fiction, Mystery and many other types of books
- Stephen Bourne
- Wikipedia
- Bourne Shell (wikipedia)
- Macros from SH
- Algol 68
- Advanced Debugger
- Vint Cerf
- Network design, TCP/IP
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- 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
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- 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".
- Famous for
- James Gosling
- Programming languages, Java
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- 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
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- Awards:
- Turing Award
- Kenneth Iverson
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- IBM Selectric (golf ball) typewriter was side project
- APL
- 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
- Brian Kernigham
- Donald Knuth
- Stanford web page (where he is Professor Emeritus)
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- Art of Computer Programming
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- More quotes
- xkcd
- ACM Turing Award
- Brief biography
- Books
- Amazon -- Knuth books
- Kindle Store
- Articles about "The Art of Computer Programming"
- Overleaf (One of many online TeX services for collaboration)
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Network design, World Wide Web, HTTP
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- Cool URIs don't change
- Awards:
- Knighted by Queen Elizabeth
- Turing Award
- John McCarthy
- LISP creator
- ALGOL Contributor
- Part of the early AI Founders
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- Awards:
- Turing Award
- Computer Pioneer Award
- IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
- Kyoto Prize
- National Medal of Science
- Robert Metcalfe
- Designer of ethernet
- Founded 3com
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- 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:
- Dennis Ritchie
- 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
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- GNU Project
- Free Software Foundation
- A look back at 40 Years of GNU and the Free Software Foundation
- Fundamental idea: Free as in beer
- Andrew Sorenson
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
- Operating Systems, Minix, Linux, microkernels
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A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year.
- Notion of "intelligent design", as applied to software
- Isolate components from each other so that they cannot interfere with each other - or even communicate unless there is a reason to do so
- Stick to the "principle of least authority"; no component should have more privilege than it needs to get the job done
- The failure of one component should not cause others to fail
- The health of components should be monitored; if one stops operating properly, the system should know about it
- One must be prepared to replace components in a running system
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- 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
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- 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)
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- Alan Turing
- Niklaus Wirth