Richard Simpson Bird (13 February 1943 – 4 April 2022) was an English computer scientist. He was a Supernumerary Fellow of Computation at Lincoln College...
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Richard Bird may refer to: Richard Bird (actor) (1895–1979), British actor Richard Ely Bird (1878–1955), American politician Richard Bird (computer scientist)...
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politician Richard Bird (computer scientist) (1943–2022), professor at Oxford Robert Bird (Welsh politician) (1839–1909), Welsh politician Sir Robert Bird, 2nd...
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(September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline of artificial...
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John Gilbert Presslie Barnes is a British computer scientist best known for his role in developing and publicising the programming language Ada. He is...
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Alan Kay (category American computer scientists)
Alan Curtis Kay (born May 17, 1940) is an American computer scientist who pioneered work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user interface...
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Charles Carroll Morgan (born 1952) is an American computer scientist who moved to Australia in his early teens. He completed his education there (high...
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Tony Hoare (redirect from Charles Antony Richard Hoare)
Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (/hɔːr/; born 11 January 1934), also known as C. A. R. Hoare, is a British computer scientist who has made foundational...
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Stephen R. Bourne (redirect from Stephen Richard Bourne)
Stephen Richard "Steve" Bourne (born 7 January 1944) is an English computer scientist based in the United States for most of his career. He is well known...
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Lambert Meertens (category Dutch computer scientists)
Amsterdam) is a Dutch computer scientist and professor. As of 2020[update], he is a researcher at the Kestrel Institute, a nonprofit computer science research...
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Edsger W. Dijkstra (category Dutch computer scientists)
[ˈɛtsxər ˈʋibə ˈdɛikstraː] ; 11 May 1930 – 6 August 2002) was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, software engineer, mathematician, and science essayist...
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used by many scientists including adherents to the PhyloCode. Gauthier defined Aves to include only the crown group of the set of modern birds. This was...
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Jeremy Gibbons (category British computer scientists)
Jeremy Gibbons is a computer scientist and professor of computing at the University of Oxford. He serves as Deputy Director of the Software Engineering...
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John C. Reynolds (category American computer scientists)
Charles Reynolds (June 1, 1935 – April 28, 2013) was an American computer scientist. John Reynolds studied at Purdue University and then earned a Doctor...
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Michael Guy (redirect from Michael Guy (computer scientist))
1943[citation needed]) is a British computer scientist and mathematician. He is known for early work on computer systems, such as the Phoenix system at...
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Philip Wadler (category American computer scientists)
Philip Lee Wadler (born April 8, 1956) is a UK-based American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming language design and type theory...
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Peter Landin (category English computer scientists)
Peter John Landin (5 June 1930 – 3 June 2009) was a British computer scientist. He was one of the first to realise that the lambda calculus could be used...
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Robert W. Floyd (category American computer scientists)
Willoughby Floyd; June 8, 1936 – September 25, 2001) was an American computer scientist. His contributions include the design of the Floyd–Warshall algorithm...
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Brian Randell (category British computer scientists)
Brian Randell (born 1936) is a British computer scientist, and emeritus professor at the School of Computing, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. He...
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zoologist John G. Cleary – computer scientist Leonard Cockayne – botanist Naomi Cogger - epidemiologist Leslie Comrie – computer pioneer Lucy Cranwell –...
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developer of the first Soviet and European electronic computers, MESM and BESM 11- Leonid Levin, IT scientist, developed the Cook-Levin theorem 12- Willgodt...
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Andrey Yershov (category Russian computer scientists)
Ершо́в; 19 April 1931, Moscow – 8 December 1988, Moscow) was a Soviet computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in systems programming and programming language...
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Wolfram, computer scientist and physicist Michael Woodford, economist George Zweig, physicist and neurobiologist Fouad Ajami, political scientist Charles...
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Acorn Computers Ltd. was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England in 1978 by Hermann Hauser, Chris Curry and Andy Hopper. The company...
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Bernard Vauquois (category French computer scientists)
mathematician and computer scientist. He was a pioneer of computer science and machine translation (MT) in France. An astronomer-turned-computer scientist, he is...
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David Gries (category American computer scientists)
David Gries (born April 26, 1939) is an American computer scientist at Cornell University, mainly known for his books The Science of Programming (1981)...
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Ole-Johan Dahl (category Norwegian computer scientists)
(12 October 1931 – 29 June 2002) was a Norwegian computer scientist. Dahl was a professor of computer science at the University of Oslo and is considered...
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Willem van der Poel (category Dutch computer scientists)
December 1926 – 22 July 2024) was a Dutch computer scientist, who is known for designing one of the first computers to be designed in the Netherlands, the...
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Adriaan van Wijngaarden (category Dutch computer scientists)
(2 November 1916 – 7 February 1987) was a Dutch mathematician and computer scientist. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Van Wijngaarden emphasized and...
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Niklaus Wirth (category Swiss computer scientists)
Wirth (IPA: /vɛrt/) (15 February 1934 – 1 January 2024) was a Swiss computer scientist. He designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and...
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