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

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Donald Knuth

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Tex?

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Donald Knuth

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ALGOL 60

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Hoare

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CSP

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Hoare

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Did John Backus win a Turing

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yes

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part of algol with perlis

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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

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yes

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Also involved in ALGOL

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John McCarthy

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proponent of time-sharing

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John McCarthy

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Worked with Marvin Minsky

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John McCarthy

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space fountain

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John McCarthy

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Something about conditional expressions

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John McCarthy

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Whos lecture was John McCarthy inspired by?

A

Neumann

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Did John McCarthy win a truing

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ya