Turing Award
People tagged with Turing Award.
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Barbara Liskov
MIT computer scientist known for data abstraction and the Liskov substitution principle
Born 1939
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Andrew Yao
Turing Award-winning theorist who built China’s top computer science programme
Born 1946
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Amir Pnueli
Israeli computer scientist who brought temporal logic into computing
1941 – 2009
Alfred Aho
Canadian computer scientist, author of the “Dragon Book” and co-creator of AWK
Born 1941
Alan Perlis
Programming-language pioneer and the first winner of the Turing Award
1922 – 1990
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Alan Kay
Xerox PARC visionary behind Smalltalk, the Dynabook and modern graphical interfaces
Born 1940
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Adi Shamir
Israeli cryptographer, the “S” in RSA
Born 1952