Out of their minds : the lives and discoveries of 15 great computer scientists / Dennis Shasha, Cathy Lazere.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shasha, Dennis Elliott
Other Authors: Lazere, Cathy A.
Language:English
Published: New York : Copernicus, [1995], ©1995.
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Physical Description:xi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a John Backus : a restless inventor -- John McCarthy : the uncommon logician of common sense -- Alan C. Kay : a clear romantic vision -- Edsger W. Dijkstra : appalling prose and the shortest path -- Michael O. Rabin : the possibilities of chance -- Donald E. Knuth : boundless interests, a common thread -- Robert E. Tarjan : in search of good structure -- Leslie Lamport : of time, space, and computation -- Stephen Cook and Leonid Levin : a good solution is hard to find -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. : a delight in making things work -- Burton J. Smith : racing with the speed of light -- W. Daniels Hillis : the biological connection -- Edward A. Feigenbaum : the power of knowledge -- Douglas B. Lenat : a twenty-year bet. 
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