People in Computer Science

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.

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