Computing
Computing began as a branch of logic and became the infrastructure of everything. The people indexed here defined computability, wrote the first programs and compilers, designed packet networks and set the research agenda for artificial intelligence.
9 indexed lives · 0 Nobel laureates · 5 countries
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Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
780 – 850Gave the world algebra and, through his own name, the algorithm.
Uzbekistan·Mathematics · Astronomy · ComputingFull profile
Alan Turing
1912 – 1954Defined what a computer is, then was destroyed by the country he saved.
United Kingdom·Mathematics · Computing · BiologyFull profile
Tim Berners-Lee
b. 1955Wrote the web and gave it away for nothing.
United Kingdom·Computing · EngineeringFull profile