Famous Personalities By Arihan Bothra VIII-A Roll-8

Richard Brodie American computer programmer and author. He was the original creator of Microsoft Word. After leaving Microsoft, Brodie became a motivational speaker and authored two bestselling books.  Born: November 10, 1959 (age 54), Newton, Massachusetts, United States Books: Virus of the Mind: The New Science of the Meme. Education: Harvard College, Harvard University

John D. Carmack American game programmer and the co-founder of id Software. Carmack was the lead programmer of the id video games Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake, Rage and their sequels. Born: August 20, 1970 (age 43), Roeland Park, Kansas, United States Spouse: Katherine Anna Kang (m. 2000) Education: Shawnee Mission East High School, University of Missouri–Kansas City Awards: Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Video Gaming Technology and Applications

James Gosling Canadian computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language. Born: May 19, 1955 (age 59), Calgary, Canada Books: The Java Language Specification. Education: Carnegie Mellon University(1983), University of Calgary (1977)  

Tim Berners-Lee Also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.  Born: June 8, 1955 (age 58), London, United Kingdom Books: Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor Awards: MacArthur Fellowship, Marconi Prize, Charles Stark Draper Prize, Mountbatten Medal, President's Medal Education: The Queen's College, Oxford(1973–1976), Emanuel School (1969–1973)

Larry Wall Larry Wall is a computer programmer and author, most widely known as the creator of the Perl programming language. Born: September 27, 1954 (age 59), Los Angeles, California, United States Books: Programming Perl Education: Seattle Pacific University(1976), University of California, Berkeley

Richard Stallman Richard Matthew Stallman, often known by his initials, RMS, is a software freedom activist and computer programmer. Born: March 16, 1953 (age 61),Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1974–1975), Harvard University (1970–1974) Awards: MacArthur Fellowship, Grace Murray Hopper Award, Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Award

Bjarne Stroustrup Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and development of the widely used C++ programming language.   Born: December 30, 1950 (age 63),Aarhus, Denmark Education: University of Aarhus, Churchill College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge Awards: Grace Murray Hopper Award

Dennis Ritchie Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie was an American computer scientist. He created the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system.   Born: September 9, 1941, Bronxville, New York, United States Died: October 12, 2011, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States Education: Harvard University Books: The C Programming Language. Awards: Turing Award, National Medal of Technology and Innovation, IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award

Donald Knuth Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of the multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming.   Born: January 10, 1938 (age 76),Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Education: California Institute of Technology (1960–1963), more Awards: Turing Award, Grace Murray Hopper Award, more

John von Neumann John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American pure and applied mathematician, physicist, and polymath. He made major contributions to a number of fields, including mathematics, physics, economics, computing, and statistics. Born: December 28, 1903, Budapest, Hungary Died: February 8, 1957, Washington, D.C., United States Awards: Enrico Fermi Award, Bôcher Memorial Prize Education: ETH Zurich, Eötvös Loránd University

John McCarthy John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He coined the term "artificial intelligence", developed the Lisp programming language family, significantly influenced the design   Born: September 4, 1927, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Died: October 24, 2011, Stanford, California, United States Education: Princeton University (1951),California Institute of Technology (1948) Awards: Turing Award, Benjamin Franklin Medal, more

John Backus John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form, a widely used notation to define formal language syntax. Born: December 3, 1924, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Died: March 17, 2007, Ashland, Oregon, United States Education: Columbia University (1949),The Hill School, University of Virginia Awards: Turing Award, Charles Stark Draper Prize, National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science

Alan Turing Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, computer scientist and philosopher.  Born: June 23, 1912, Maida Vale, London, United Kingdom Died: June 7, 1954, Wilmslow, United Kingdom Education: Princeton University (1936–1938), more

Charles Babbage Charles Babbage, FRS was an English polymath. He was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, who is best remembered now for originating the concept of a programmable computer. Born: December 26, 1791, Teignmouth, United Kingdom Died: October 18, 1871, Marylebone, United Kingdom Awards: Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society Education: University of Cambridge,Peterhouse, Cambridge, Trinity College, Cambridge Books: Ninth Bridgewater Treatise

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