Legends of Computer Science

Bram Moolenaar: Man behind VIM has several failed projects

Bram Moolenaar is an iconic Software Programmer from Netherlands who developed VIM editor, the alternative to VI editor on UNIX systems. He is the most prominent Open Source Software Developer from Netherlands.

Culture

Riku Kawasaki

Riku Kawasaki is a Competitive Programmer from Japan and is notable from reaching the World Rank 2 on CodeForces (as on March 2021) and being an Algorithmic Finalist at Topcoder Open 2019.

Culture

Will you hire Donald Knuth as a programmer?

A manager said Donald Knuth is too theoretical and he would not hire him to lead his team or as a programmer. Donald is widely respected for his theoretical contributions and have been recognized with awards. We will show that Donald is practically strong as a programmer as well.

Culture

The man who refused $1M for his discovery (Why?) (Grigori Perelman)

Grigori Perelman is a Russian Mathematician who who refused $1M and the equivalent of Nobel Prize (Fields Medal) for his proof to one of the most difficult problems in Mathematics.

Machine Learning (ML)

John McCarthy, Man behind Garbage Collection

John McCarthy was one of the most influential Computer Scientists in 1950s and a Professor at Stanford University for nearly 38 years. He is best known for developing LISP Programming Language, inventing Garbage Collection, coining the word Artificial Intelligence and much more.

Legends of Computer Science

Hans Peter Luhn, the man behind Hash Map

Hans Peter Luhn was a computer scientist who is famously remembered as the inventor of Hash Map and has laid the foundations of text information processing.

Algorithms

Volker Strassen, the man who changed Matrix Multiplication

Volker Strassen is a Computer Scientist and Mathematician who is best known as the person who broke the strongly held belief that Matrix Multiplication cannot be done faster than O(N^3) time.

Software Engineering

Ivan Edward Sutherland: Father of computer graphics

Ivan Edward Sutherland is a computer scientist, entrepreneur and Turing Award Winner and is regarded as the Father of Computer Graphics. He is associated with Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Sun Microsystems, Evans and Sutherland and Sutherland Sproull and Associates