David John Wheeler FRS (9 February 1927 – 13 December 2004) was an English computer scientist and professor of computer science at the University of Cambridge...
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David P. Wheeler (1876–1904), United States Army captain David Wheeler (computer scientist) (1927–2004), British computer scientist David Wheeler (gardener...
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is a British computer scientist, one of the creators of AltaVista, and co-author of the paper that first described the Burrows-Wheeler Transform. Born...
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Michael David May (born 24 February 1951[citation needed]) is a British computer scientist working primarily in the fields of computer architecture, parallel...
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Stanley Gill (category British computer scientists)
1975) was a British computer scientist credited, along with Maurice Wilkes and David Wheeler, with the invention of the first computer subroutine. Stanley...
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Datagram Transport Layer Security • David Chaum • David Kahn • David Naccache • David Wagner • David Wheeler (computer scientist) • Davies attack • Davies–Meyer...
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Maurice Wilkes (category British computer scientists)
Maurice Vincent Wilkes (26 June 1913 – 29 November 2010) was an English computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic...
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Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman, judge (born 1911) 13 December – David Wheeler, computer scientist (born 1927) 14 December – Harry Bowcott, rugby union player...
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This is a list of computer scientists, people who do work in computer science, in particular researchers and authors. Some persons notable as programmers...
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David James Brown (born 1957) is an American computer scientist. He was one of a small group at Stanford University that helped to develop the computer...
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February – John Buller, composer (died 2004) 9 February – David Wheeler, computer scientist (died 2004) 10 February – Nigel Bagnall, army general (died...
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electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs, which enable computers to perform a wide range of tasks. The term computer system...
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Bjarne Stroustrup (category Danish computer scientists)
his PhD in computer science from the University of Cambridge, where his research on distributed computing was supervised by David Wheeler. In 1979, Stroustrup...
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Roger Needham (category British computer scientists)
Roger Michael Needham (9 February 1935 – 1 March 2003) was a British computer scientist. Needham was born in Birmingham, England, the only child of Phyllis...
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Selwyn Whalley, footballer Prof David Wheeler, computer scientist, who invented the subroutine, and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (used in data compression)...
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Richard Crandall (category American computer scientists)
(December 29, 1947 – December 20, 2012) was an American physicist and computer scientist who made contributions to computational number theory. Crandall was...
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Butler Lampson (category American computer scientists)
Butler W. Lampson (born December 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist best known for his contributions to the development and implementation of...
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Alan Turing (category English computer scientists)
(/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. He...
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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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EDSAC (category Computer-related introductions in 1949)
location a particular instruction was referencing. David Wheeler, who earned the world's first Computer Science PhD working on the project, is credited with...
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List of programmers (category Lists of computer scientists)
entries must already have associated articles. Some persons notable as computer scientists are included here because they work in program as well as research...
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Vladlen Koltun (category Israeli computer scientists)
is an Israeli-American computer scientist and intelligent systems researcher. He currently serves as distinguished scientist at Apple Inc. His main areas...
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Ken Thompson (redirect from Ken Thompson (computer programmer))
as the 414s. A defence against the "Thompson hack" was developed by David A. Wheeler. It uses a technique called diverse double compilation to circumvent...
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"John A. Wheeler, Physicist Who Coined the Term 'Black Hole,' Is Dead at 96". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-03-11. Finkelstein, David Ritz (2013)...
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1977, Everett was invited to give a talk at a conference Wheeler had organized at Wheeler's new location at the University of Texas at Austin. As with...
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Matthew Walker is a British author, scientist and professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. As an academic,...
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Mathai Joseph (category Indian computer scientists)
supervision of David Wheeler (awarded 1968). From 1968 to 1985, Joseph worked on programming as a fellow and senior research scientist at the Tata Institute...
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Andy Hopper (category British computer scientists)
his PhD in 1978 for research into local area computer communications networks supervised by David Wheeler. Hopper's PhD, completed in 1977 was in the field...
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History of computing hardware (redirect from Computer generation)
specialized applications. The principle of the modern computer was first described by computer scientist Alan Turing, who set out the idea in his seminal 1936...
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Leslie Valiant (category British computer scientists)
Leslie Gabriel Valiant FRS (born 28 March 1949) is a British American computer scientist and computational theorist. He was born to a chemical engineer father...
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