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Out of their minds : the lives and discoveries of 15 great computer scientists
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Out of their minds : the lives and discoveries of 15 great computer scientists

Author: Dennis Elliott Shasha; Cathy A Lazere
Publisher: New York : Copernicus, ©1995.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dennis Elliott Shasha; Cathy A Lazere
ISBN: 0387979921 9780387979922
OCLC Number: 32240355
Description: xi, 291 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: John Backus : a restless inventor -- John McCarthy : the uncommon logician of common sense -- Alan C. Kay : a clear romantic vision -- Edsger W. Dijkstra : appalling prose and the shortest path -- Michael O. Rabin : the possibilities of chance -- Donald E. Knuth : boundless interests, a common thread -- Robert E. Tarjan : in search of good structure -- Leslie Lamport : of time, space, and computation -- Stephen Cook and Leonid Levin : a good solution is hard to find -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. : a delight in making things work -- Burton J. Smith : racing with the speed of light -- W. Daniels Hillis : the biological connection -- Edward A. Feigenbaum : the power of knowledge -- Douglas B. Lenat : a twenty-year bet.
Responsibility: Dennis Shasha, Cathy Lazere.

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