----------------------------------- JWHooper Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:49 pm Computer Scientists ----------------------------------- I think it's Alan Turing. ----------------------------------- rdrake Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:39 pm RE:Computer Scientists ----------------------------------- Knuth wrote the bible on computer science. ----------------------------------- Dan Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:57 pm RE:Computer Scientists ----------------------------------- I like Randy Pausch for his last lector talk, but i guse it did not have much to do with CS. ----------------------------------- md Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:18 pm RE:Computer Scientists ----------------------------------- Me. And screw you for not including me on the poll ;-) ----------------------------------- JWHooper Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:26 pm Re: RE:Computer Scientists ----------------------------------- Me. And screw you for not including me on the poll ;-) Sorry about that, I will try to include you on the poll next time :wink: ----------------------------------- OneOffDriveByPoster Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:45 pm Re: Computer Scientists ----------------------------------- Bjarne Stroustrup ----------------------------------- Nick Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:42 am RE:Computer Scientists ----------------------------------- Randall Monroe and the black hat support line ftw ----------------------------------- sparta Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:11 am RE:Computer Scientists ----------------------------------- turing is god. ----------------------------------- apomb Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:42 pm RE:Computer Scientists ----------------------------------- Alan Turing was not the inventor of Turing, like probably most people on this site think... ----------------------------------- A.J Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:34 pm Re: Computer Scientists ----------------------------------- Alan Turing was not the inventor of Turing, like probably most people on this site think... you're right...many people have that misconception. The language 'Turing' was named after Alan Turing... ----------------------------------- Vermette Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:39 am Re: Computer Scientists ----------------------------------- I have to go with 'other', because there are simply too many great names missing; Babbage, Lovelace, Von Neumann, Huffman, Church, Ullman, Shannon, Hamming, Dijkstra, Backus, Hoare, Thompson, Ritchie, Hopcroft, Karp, Chomsky... Those are just the names that I can think of at the moment... I don't think it's really fair to say any of these men and women is necessarily a greater computer scientist than the other... They all worked on a large variety of very different and very important problems. Shannon can be thanked for all kinds of work in information theory and telecommunications, the computer I'm typing this in on is based on Von Neumann architecture, Dijkstra did important work on graph theory and helped develop ALGOL... And this ignores the important work done by Mathematicians, many of whom these people started as. ----------------------------------- CodeMonkey2000 Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:44 am RE:Computer Scientists ----------------------------------- Ric Holt!!!!!!!1111!!!!elven!!!! ----------------------------------- syntax_error Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:35 pm Re: Computer Scientists ----------------------------------- Alan Turing was not the inventor of Turing, like probably most people on this site think... I thought that would be a given. ----------------------------------- tenniscrazy Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:27 am RE:Computer Scientists ----------------------------------- lol i did a project on alan turing and he's actually really wierd, altho smart. Like he was gay and turned really scary at the end of his life ----------------------------------- jernst Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:30 am Re: Computer Scientists ----------------------------------- haha well there is that expression about the brilliant bordering crazy, so maybe he crossed that line finally when he became scary at the end of his life :P ----------------------------------- tenniscrazy Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:34 am RE:Computer Scientists ----------------------------------- well, i think he would have been quite sane if he lived in a time when homosexuality was accepted, but he ended up killing himself i think because he was prosecuted for having a relationship with a random guy ----------------------------------- jernst Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:56 am Re: Computer Scientists ----------------------------------- thats a shame :(