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Peter Naur

Denmark

programming languages

J. C. R. Licklider

U.S.A

human-computer interaction

Friedrich L. Bauer

Germany

programming languages

Paul Baran

Belarus

communication

Leonard Kleinrock

U.S.A

communication

C. A. R. Hoare

Sri Lanka

algorithms

Kristen Nygaard

Norway

programming languages

Ole-Johan Dahl

Norway

programming languages

Wesley A. Clark

U.S.A

hardware

Jean E. Sammet

U.S.A

programming languages

Douglas Engelbart

U.S.A

human-computer interaction

Marvin Minsky

U.S.A

artificial intelligence

Ivan Sutherland

U.S.A

human-computer interaction

Seymour Cray

U.S.A

supercomputing

Pier Giorgio Perotto

Italy

personal computing

Joseph Weizenbaum

Germany

artificial intelligence

John W. Tukey

U.S.A

computational mathematics

James Cooley

U.S.A

signal processing

Donald Davies

United Kingdom

communication

Corrado Böhm

Italy

programming languages

Stephen Cook

U.S.A

theory of computation

Dennis Ritchie

U.S.A

programming languages

Ken Thompson

U.S.A

programming languages

Edsger W. Dijkstra

Netherlands

programming languages