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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Grady Booch	Computer Programmer	27-Feb-1955		Unified Modeling Language
Steve Bourne	Computer Programmer	?		/bin/sh
Fred Brooks	Author	19-Apr-1931		The Mythical Man-Month
Rodney Brooks	Scientist	30-Dec-1954		Robotics researcher, director of MIT CS and AI Lab
Ed Catmull	Business	31-Mar-1945		Pixar Co-Founder, Disney Animation president
Vint Cerf	Scientist	23-Jun-1943		Co-designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol
Dorothy Denning	Scientist	12-Aug-1945		Professor, interest in encryption
Edsger Dijkstra	Computer Programmer	11-May-1930	6-Aug-2002	Enemy of the goto statement
Ed Felten	Computer Programmer	25-Mar-1963		Broke SDMI
Bob Frankston	Computer Programmer	14-Jun-1949		Programmer of Visicalc
Hector Garcia-Molina	Educator	c. 1954		Stanford EECS Professor
C. Daniel Gelatt	Business	c. 1947		President of NMT Corporation
Chuck Geschke	Business	11-Sep-1939		Co-Founder of Adobe
Ronald Graham	Mathematician	31-Oct-1935		Mathematician, Computer Scientist
Donald P. Greenberg	Educator	c. 1933		Prof. of Computer Graphics, Cornell
John L. Hennessy	Educator	c. 1953		President of Stanford University
Danny Hillis	Business	25-Sep-1956		Co-Founder, Thinking Machines
Anita K. Jones	Educator	c. 1942		Professor at University of Virginia
Robert E. Kahn	Scientist	23-Dec-1938		Co-Inventor, Internet's TCP-IP protocol
Donald E. Knuth	Computer Programmer	10-Jan-1938		The Art of Computer Programming
Ray Kurzweil	Inventor	12-Feb-1948		Age of Spiritual Machines
Lawrence Lessig	Attorney	3-Jun-1961		Constitutional and internet law
Carolyn Meinel	Author	c. 1946		Walking scr1pt k1dd13 factory
Mike Muuss	Computer Programmer	16-Oct-1958	20-Nov-2000	Ping
Ron Rivest	Computer Programmer	1947		The R in RSA
Pamela Samuelson	Educator	c. 1949		Computer Law Professor at UC Berkeley
Robert Sedgewick	Computer Programmer	c. 1946		Algorithms
David Sobel	Attorney	?		EFF Senior Counsel
Gene Spafford	Computer Programmer	c. 1957		Spaf
Bjarne Stroustrup	Computer Programmer	1950		Inventor of C++ programming language
Ivan Sutherland	Engineer	16-May-1938		Father of computer graphics
Guido van Rossum	Computer Programmer	?		Created Python programming language
John Warnock	Computer Programmer	6-Oct-1940		Co-Founder of Adobe
Niklaus Wirth	Computer Programmer	15-Feb-1934		Inventor of Pascal, Modula-2

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