Who was the smartest at Computer Science?
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| Donald Knuth. |
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10% |
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| Alan Turing. |
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52% |
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| George Boole. |
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5% |
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| (Other computer scientist that is not listed above.) |
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31% |
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JWHooper
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 Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:49 pm Post subject: Computer Scientists |
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| I think it's Alan Turing. |
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rdrake
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:39 pm Post subject: RE:Computer Scientists |
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| Knuth wrote the bible on computer science. |
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Dan
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject: RE:Computer Scientists |
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| I like Randy Pausch for his last lector talk, but i guse it did not have much to do with CS. |
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md
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject: RE:Computer Scientists |
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Me. And screw you for not including me on the poll  |
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JWHooper
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:26 pm Post subject: Re: RE:Computer Scientists |
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md @ Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:18 pm wrote: 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  |
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OneOffDriveByPoster
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject: Re: Computer Scientists |
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| Bjarne Stroustrup |
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Nick
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:42 am Post subject: RE:Computer Scientists |
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| Randall Monroe and the black hat support line ftw |
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sparta
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:11 am Post subject: RE:Computer Scientists |
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| turing is god. |
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apomb
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 2:42 pm Post subject: RE:Computer Scientists |
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| Alan Turing was not the inventor of Turing, like probably most people on this site think... |
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A.J
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 11:34 pm Post subject: Re: Computer Scientists |
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apomb wrote:
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... |
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Vermette
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:39 am Post subject: Re: Computer Scientists |
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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. |
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CodeMonkey2000
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:44 am Post subject: RE:Computer Scientists |
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| Ric Holt!!!!!!!1111!!!!elven!!!! |
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syntax_error
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 12:35 pm Post subject: Re: Computer Scientists |
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apomb wrote:
Alan Turing was not the inventor of Turing, like probably most people on this site think...
I thought that would be a given. |
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tenniscrazy
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:27 am Post subject: RE:Computer Scientists |
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| 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 |
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jernst
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:30 am Post subject: Re: Computer Scientists |
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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  |
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