Famous People (All things mentioned on notes) Flashcards by Avi K

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Automatic Computing Engine

A

Alan Turing

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Cryptanalysis of the enigma

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Alan Turing

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2012 is his year, why

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Alan Turing, anniversary of birth

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involved in manhattan project

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John von Neumann

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contributed to game theory

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John von Neumann

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first recipient of Enrico Fermi Award

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John von Neumann

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first recipient of Turing Award

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Alan Perlis

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Wrote algol?

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Alan Perlis

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Basically invented compilers

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grace hopper

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Who wrote Bankers algorithm and what is it

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Edsger Dijkstra, resource alloc and deadlock avoidance

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Did Edsger Dijskttra win a Turing award?

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Yes

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Did Grace Hopper win a turing award?

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no

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Did John von Neumann win a turing award?

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no

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Did Donalnd Knuth win Turing?

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Yes

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Did C.A.R. Hoare win Turing

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yes

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Author of the art of computer programming

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Donald Knuth

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Love at first Byte

A

Donald Knuth

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Tex?

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Donald Knuth

Q

ALGOL 60

A

Hoare

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CSP

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Hoare

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Did John Backus win a Turing

A

yes

Q

part of algol with perlis

A

john backus

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function level programming

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John backus

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Did Niklaus Wirth win a turing

A

yes

Also involved in ALGOL

John McCarthy

proponent of time-sharing

John McCarthy

Worked with Marvin Minsky

John McCarthy

space fountain

John McCarthy

Something about conditional expressions

John McCarthy

Whos lecture was John McCarthy inspired by?

Neumann

Did John McCarthy win a truing

ya