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&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
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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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