John Backus was a mathematician known for his invention of FORTRAN & for BNF notation for describing syntax for the programming language. John developed Formula Translator or Fortran, which was the first high-level programming language. It was a widely used programming language that made computers accessible and practical machines for developers and scientists without any …
Grace Hopper, brought a revolution in the field of computers. She was the first to explore computer programming. She is rightly known as the Queen of Computer Code. Her motto in life was “Dare and Do”. Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was a Computer Scientist, mathematician, and Admiral in the U.S. Navy. Birth and Education Born …
John McCarthy is a pioneer of AI or Artificial Intelligence and a popular computer scientist. He made huge contributions in mathematics and the computer science and made significant inventions in the field of artificial intelligence & interactive computing systems. Early Life McCarthy was born in 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, Patrick McCarthy, was a …
Anders Hejlsberg is quite a famous personality, being a Technical Fellow in the Developer Division of Microsoft, Hejlsberg is popularly known as the influential creator of development tools and various programming languages. He’s a chief designer of C# programming language as well as a key participant in the development of the Microsoft .NET Framework. Since …
Brian Wilson Kernighan is a computer scientist from Canada. He worked at Nokia Bell labs. This is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by a multinational company Nokia. He contributed to the development of UNIX with Ken Thomson and Dennis Ritchie. Brian Kernighan worked as co-author with Dennis Ritchie on the book …
Dennis Ritchie, a computer scientist is most popularly known for creating the C programming language. Dennis grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and attended ‘Summit High School’ in Summit, New Jersey. He was a star student in the classroom, earning consistently good grades. He went on to study applied mathematics and physics at Harvard University. …
Bjarne Stroustrup, a Danish computer scientist, was born in Copenhagen on December 30, 1950. His contributions to the C++ programming language and its implementation earned him the lion’s share of his fame. He maintains two careers simultaneously, one as a visiting lecturer at Columbia University and the other as a managing director at Morgan Stanley …
