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1) Alan Turing - Turing Machine / Turing Test 2) Linus Torvalds - Linux 3) Donald Knuth - "The Art of Computer Programming", TeX formatting 4) Edward F. Moore - Moore Finite State Machine 5) John von Neumann - Cellular Automata 6) Bjarne Stroustrup - Creator of C++ 7) Guido van Rossum - Python Programming language 8) Larry Page - Creator of Google 9) Claude Shannon - Information Theory 10) Grace Hopper - Creator of COBOL
Of course we cant forget about people that influenced theorectical computer science (even before "computer science" was created) like: Leonhard Euler - Mathematician, Graph Theory Charles Babbage - Babbage machine Ada Lovelace - first programmer ...and many others
This post has been edited by mattman059: 18 Dec, 2007 - 09:23 AM
In my eyes, these are the top 10 computer scientist picks for most influential:
Richard Hamming - Founder of the ACM
Grace Hopper - COBOL, Woman
Richard Hamming is also famous for his many contributions to telecommunications (and by extension networking). His "Hamming code" and "Hamming distance" are used in the area of bit error correction (not to be confused with bit error detection).
Grace Hopper is also commonly credited with bringing the term "bug" into popular usage, athough it's unclear as to whether she coined it. I'm sure we've all heard the story.
Strange, I don't see the DIC super seven listed on that page. You know, Amadeus, Skyhawk, Snoj, 1lacca, Sloth, Psycho and Myself. What is this world coming to?!?!?!
Some other noteables I would put on there is George Boole, Inventor of Boolean logic and John Henry Holland - Father of genetic algorithms.
But the super seven beats them all. Which shocks me that they weren't even listed. After all, they created the most comprehensive and programming dominating site on the Internet. It is like not even mentioning George Washington as the first American president.
This post has been edited by Martyr2: 18 Dec, 2007 - 10:46 AM
18 Dec, 2007 - 07:21 AM
I just dropped by and stuck, the creator is above young padawan 
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