[mattman059]

I guess if you mention Billy boy then you have to mention Steve Jobs and "The other Steve" aka The Woz haha

[1lacca]

This thread is not about IT personalities, it is about computer scientists, you know both computers and science. IMHO neither Bill Gates nor Steve Jobs have anything to do with this category. They are good at marketing, economics and a bunch of things (building sects, washing people brain, etc.), but I don't think they have accomplished anything remotely close to those mentioned so far in the field of comp sci. (Correct me if I'm wrong.) You could write George Bush is a good computer scientist, because he is the president of so many good computer scientists, so you can credit him for everything they have accomplished. OK, I think you know what I am getting at.

Btw, Noam Chomsky has also done some interesting things.

[Programmist]

1lacca, on 19 Dec, 2007 - 03:32 AM, said:

This thread is not about IT personalities, it is about computer scientists, you know both computers and science. IMHO neither Bill Gates nor Steve Jobs have anything to do with this category. They are good at marketing, economics and a bunch of things (building sects, washing people brain, etc.), but I don't think they have accomplished anything remotely close to those mentioned so far in the field of comp sci...

Absolutely agree.

1lacca, on 19 Dec, 2007 - 03:32 AM, said:

Btw, Noam Chomsky has also done some interesting things.

I'd say so! His investigation into languages and grammar are the basis for modern compliers and Automata Theory.

[Jingle]

Jingle, on 18 Dec, 2007 - 08:00 PM, said:

+ im not sure he realy did any coding or inventing him self
just a good busnis man

yep i totoly agree.

[mattman059]

I will agree they did not contribute to CS that much, but IT/business isnt their main area either, I would consider their contributions more part of computer engineering than IT

[Programmist]

If Microsoft had actually invented DOS or the Windowing GUI or other things like that I might agree. But those "accolades" were mainly a result of timely acquisitions and alleged espionage.

[GWatt]

Jingle, on 19 Dec, 2007 - 12:21 PM, said:

Jingle, on 18 Dec, 2007 - 08:00 PM, said:

+ im not sure he realy did any coding or inventing him self
just a good busnis man

yep i totoly agree.

Maybe you did this intentionally, but you just quoted and agreed with yourself. I'm gonna have to use on this one.

I know he wasn't a computer scientist as a main fling, but Richard Feynman deserves some credit.

[RodgerB]

You're all forgetting about Konrad Zuse, without Konrad high-level programming languages wouldn't be what they are today, without Konrad we wouldn't have program controlled computers, like the Z3 (, 5-10 Hz).

[rahulbatra]

I wonder why nobody has mentioned Edsger W. Dijkstra yet.

[nirvanarupali]

Martyr2 still the winner.

[mattman059]

RodgerB, on 25 Dec, 2007 - 03:14 AM, said:

You're all forgetting about Konrad Zuse, without Konrad high-level programming languages wouldn't be what they are today, without Konrad we wouldn't have program controlled computers, like the Z3 (, 5-10 Hz).

Pshh....5-10Hz....Im more impressed at the powerhouse that was the Z1 !! ...a blisteringly fast 1Hz!

[RodgerB]

mattman059, on 30 Dec, 2007 - 03:59 AM, said:

Pshh....5-10Hz....Im more impressed at the powerhouse that was the Z1 !! ...a blisteringly fast 1Hz!

1Hz is so slow, its not even funny.

[crupib]

skyhawk133, on 18 Dec, 2007 - 08:21 AM, said:

In my eyes, these are the top 10 computer scientist picks for most influential:

• Vinton Gray Cerf - 'Father of the Internet', Co-Inventor TCP/IP
  
• Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd - Created the Relational Database Model
  
• Richard Hamming - Founder of the ACM
  
• Robert E. Kahn - Co-Inventor TCP/IP
  
• John McCarthy - Coined the term "artificial intelligence"
  
• Bjarne Stroustrup - Invented C++
  
• Leonard Adleman - Co-Inventor RSA cryptosystem
  
• John Backus - Invented FORTRAN
  
• Edwin Catmull - Computer Graphics, President of Walt Disney Animation & Pixar
  
• Grace Hopper - COBOL, Woman

These are more modern day computer scientists, people like Boole, Ada, and Babbage definitely deserve mention though.

I'm by no means an expert, so who's on your list?

http://en.wikipedia....uter_scientists


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skyhawk133, on 18 Dec, 2007 - 08:21 AM, said:

In my eyes, these are the top 10 computer scientist picks for most influential:

• Vinton Gray Cerf - 'Father of the Internet', Co-Inventor TCP/IP
  
• Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd - Created the Relational Database Model
  
• Richard Hamming - Founder of the ACM
  
• Robert E. Kahn - Co-Inventor TCP/IP
  
• John McCarthy - Coined the term "artificial intelligence"
  
• Bjarne Stroustrup - Invented C++
  
• Leonard Adleman - Co-Inventor RSA cryptosystem
  
• John Backus - Invented FORTRAN
  
• Edwin Catmull - Computer Graphics, President of Walt Disney Animation & Pixar
  
• Grace Hopper - COBOL, Woman

These are more modern day computer scientists, people like Boole, Ada, and Babbage definitely deserve mention though.

I'm by no means an expert, so who's on your list?

http://en.wikipedia....uter_scientists


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How about Taylor of Xerox Park fame - inventor of ethernet.
Or Kernighan and Ritchie Inventors of Unix.
There are so many.

[Amadeus]

Ritchie had been mentioned in the second post.

[corliss]

Hey Hey,
What about Stephen Bourne?
Feels like being Bourne again.