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Out of their Minds The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists

Biography / Memoir
By: D Shasha and C Lazere
291 pages, B/w photos, figs
Publisher: Springer Nature
Out of their Minds
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About this book

&i;`A fascinating collection of profiles and interviews with some of the men who brought us to the computer age.'&o; LR Shannon, The New York Times

Contents

INTRODUCTION.- LINGUISTS: John Backus.- John McCarthy.- Alan Kay.- ALGORITHMISTS: Edsger Dijkstra.- Michael Rabin.- Donald Knuth.- Robert Tarjan.- Leslie Lamport.- Steve Cook and Leonid Levin.- ARCHITECTS: Fred Brooks.- Burton Smith.- Danny Hillis. SCULPTORS OF MACHINE INTELLIGENCE: Edward Feigenbaum.- Doug Lenat.- EPILOGUE.- POSTSCRIPT.- GLOSSARY.- REFERENCES.

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Biography / Memoir
By: D Shasha and C Lazere
291 pages, B/w photos, figs
Publisher: Springer Nature
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