Stanford University Computer Science: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 14:57, 9 March 2023

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*[[Reed Hastings]], [[Netflix]] founder

*[[Jawed Karim]], co-founder of [[YouTube]]

* [[Barbara Liskov]], the first woman earning a Ph.D in CS (from Stanford), [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist

*[[Larry Page]], co-founder of [[Google]]

*[[Blake Ross]], co-creator of [[Mozilla Firefox]]

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* [[Robert W. Floyd|Robert Floyd]], former faculty, [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist

* [[Gene Golub]], former faculty, a leading authority in numerical matrix analysis, inventor of the algorithm for [[Singular Value Decomposition]] (SVD)

* [[David Gries]], former faculty, profprofessor emeritus at [[Cornell University|Cornell]], first text on [[compilers]], leader in [[programming methodology]] and [[Computer science education|CS education]]

* [[Leonidas J. Guibas]], Allan Newell award-winning pioneer in data structures and geometric algorithms

* [[John L. Hennessy]], pioneer in [[RISC]], President of Stanford

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* [[Daphne Koller]], professor in CS, co-founder of [[Coursera]]

* [[Donald Knuth]], professor emeritus, computer science pioneer, creator of [[TeX]], author of [[The Art of Computer Programming]], [[Turing award]] winner

* [[Barbara Liskov]], the first woman earning a Ph.D in CS (from Stanford), [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist

* [[Edward McCluskey]], professor in EE, [[IEEE John von Neumann Medal]] winner

* [[John McCarthy (computer scientist)|John McCarthy]], responsible for the coining of the term [[Artificial Intelligence]], and inventor of the [[Lisp programming language]] and [[time sharing]], [[Turing award]] winner

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* [[Robert Tarjan]], former faculty, [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist

* [[Sebastian Thrun]] director of Stanford AI LAB, team leader of Stanford driverless car racing team, whose entry [[Stanley (vehicle)|Stanley]] won 2005 [[DARPA]] grand challenge.

* [[JeffJeffrey Ullman]], professor in CS, IEEE [[IEEE John Vonvon Neumann prizeMedal]] winner, [[Turing award]] winner

* [[Niklaus Wirth]] former faculty, [[Turing award]]-winning computer scientist, inventor of the [[Pascal (programming language)|Pascal Programming Language]]

* [[Terry Winograd]], faculty in CS, winner of 2010 [[IJCAI Computers and Thought Award]]