Who do you think are the most important people to know about in computer science?
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Anonymous2018-07-31 10:39
Alonzo Church - invented functional programming. John McCarthy - founded AI, Lisp and garbage collection. Alan Kay - basically continued where McCarthy left with Lisp. Gerald Sussman - wrote awesome CS book, that quickly introduces reader to major concepts. Marvin Minsky - did a lot of research on neural networks, robotics and popularized AI concepts in his books.