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Herman Hollerith
American inventor and statistician whose…
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Joshua Lederberg
American geneticist who discovered that b…
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Kevin Mitnick
American hacker turned cybersecurity cons…
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John Backus
American computer scientist who led the t…
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Alonzo Church
American mathematician and logician who c…
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Hilary Putnam
American philosopher, mathematician, and…
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Vannevar Bush
American engineer and science administrat…
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Satoru Iwata
Japanese programmer and businessman who l…
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Robert Noyce
American physicist and entrepreneur who c…
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Frances Allen
American computer scientist who pioneered…
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Edgar F. Codd
English-born computer scientist who inven…
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Tony Hoare
British computer scientist who invented t…
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Lotfi A. Zadeh
Azerbaijani-born American engineer and ma…
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Seymour Cray
American electrical engineer and supercom…
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