World Great Computer Scientists

This book deals with a list of well-known computer scientists, people who do work in computer science, in particular researchers and authors. Some persons notable as programmers are included here because they work in research as well as program. A few of these people pre-date the invention of the digital computer; they are now regarded as computer scientists because their work can be seen as leading to the invention of the computer. Others are mathematicians whose work falls within what would now be called theoretical computer science, such as complexity theory and algorithmic information theory. This list includes notable computer scientists and contributors to computer science, some of whom may not have thought of themselves primarily as computer scientists but are included here because of their important contributions to the related discipline. Specialized lists of computer scientists can also be made as per the subject areas of computer science. This list provides everything one wanted to know about famous computer scientists, such as; biographies, information about famous computer scientists. List of computer scientists is devoted to acknowledging the movers and shakers throughout history who advanced our world society for the common good. The great computer scientists who are listed in this book include the following: Hal Abelson, Wil van der Aalst, Samson Abramsky, Leonard Adleman, Frances E. Allen, Gene Amdahl, John Vincent Atanasoff, Charles Babbage, Charles Bachman, Roland Carl Backhouse, John Backus, David A. Bader, Anthony James Barr, Steven M. Bellovin, Tim Berners-Lee, Peter Bernus, Manuel Blum, Eric Allman, Daniel J. Bernstein, Vint Cerf, Alonzo Church, Alan Cox, Seymour Cray, Haskell Curry, Adrian Walker, Gul Agha, Charles H. Bennett, John Day, Mark Dean, Clarence Ellis, Grady Booch, George Boole, Jonathan Bowen, David J. Brown, Per Brinch Hansen, Bert Bos, Sjaak Brinkkemper, Fred Brooks, Rodney Brooks, Martin Campbell-Kelly, Edwin Catmull, Gregory Chaitin, Zhou Chaochen, Edmund M. Clarke, Edgar F. Codd, Stephen Cook, Fernando J. Corbató, Ole-Johan Dahl, Peter J. Denning, Whitfield Diffie, Edsger W. Dijkstra, Jack Dongarra, Charles Stark Draper, Paul Dourish, Philip Emeagwali, Adam Dunkels, Douglas Engelbart, Andrey Ershov, Christopher Evans, David C. Evans, J. Presper Eckert, Edward Felten, Tommy Flowers, Edward Feigenbaum, Robert W. Floyd, James D. Foley, Herbert W. Franke, Richard P. Gabriel, Bernard Galler, Seymour Ginsburg, Adele Goldberg, James Gosling, Richard Hamming, Gernot Heiser, Les Hatton, Martin Hellman, James Hendler, John L. Hennessy, Andrew Herbert, Geoffrey Hinton, Tony Hoare, John Henry Holland, Herman Hollerith, John Hopcroft, Eric Horvitz, David A. Huffman, Jean Ichbiah, Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr., Kenneth E. Iverson, Ivar Jacobson, Ramesh Jain, Jonathan James, Cliff Jones, Michael I. Jordan, Aravind Joshi, Bill Joy, William Kahan, Bob Kahn, Avinash Kak, Alan Kay, Steve Jobs, Yuri Matiyasevich, John McCarthy, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Leonard Kleinrock, Richard Stearns, Guy L. Steele, Jr., Larry Stockmeyer, Michael Stonebraker, Christopher Strachey, Gerald Jay Sussman, Jean E. Sammet and Carl Sassenrath.

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