Major Players in CS with Websites
Here is an (incomplete) listing of important player in CS with websites or websites created for important players in CS. If you think someone important has been left out, let us know! Send mails to cs at neverland.ncssm.edu.
Past Players
- Charles Babbage (1791-1871), "Reformer militant, mathematician, computer pioneer, economist, mechanical engineer, code-breaker, inventor, society figure, etc. etc."
- George Boole(1815-1864) was a mathematician and philosopher and the author of the seminal work Calculus of Logic. He codified the rules and operations that occur on boolean statements.
- E. W. Dijkstra (1930-2002). This obit by the University of Texas Computer Science Department nicely summarizes his contributions to the field. UT maintains an archive (linked above) that contains hundreds of his works.
- Kurt Godel (1906-1978), prover of the famed Incompleteness Theorem, and smasher of the dreams for a true Principia Mathematica
- Ada Lovelace, nee Byron (1815-1852), early pioneer in Computer Science and friend of Charles Babbage
- Dennis Ritchie (1941-2011), author of a seminal book on C, a key player in the development of UNIX and an early worker on the creation of C.
- Alan Turing (1912-1954), a page maintained by his biographer, Andrew Hodges
Present Players
- James Gosling, the "Java Guy." He is now ensconced at Google.
- Donald E. Knuth, the author of The Art of Computer Programming and the inventor of TeX. He is retired from Stanford, if Knuth can ever retire.
- Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation.
- Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++.
- Linus Torvalds is the creator of LINUX. Wikipedia has an excellent article on him.
- Guido Von Rossum is the creator of the Python programming language.
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