HONOR

Awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Backus	Computer Programmer	3-Dec-1924	17-Mar-2007	Inventor of BNF, led FORTRAN team
Fred Brooks	Author	19-Apr-1931		The Mythical Man-Month
Vint Cerf	Scientist	23-Jun-1943		Co-Designed Internet's TCP-IP protocol
Edsger Dijkstra	Computer Programmer	11-May-1930	6-Aug-2002	Enemy of the goto statement
Doug Engelbart	Scientist	30-Jan-1925		Inventor of computer mouse
Robert E. Kahn	Scientist	23-Dec-1938		Co-Inventor, Internet's TCP-IP protocol
Alan Kay	Computer Programmer	17-May-1940		Father of Object-Oriented Programming
Donald E. Knuth	Computer Programmer	10-Jan-1938		The Art of Computer Programming
John McCarthy	Computer Programmer	4-Sep-1927		Created LISP programming language
Marvin Minsky	Scientist	9-Aug-1927		Father of Artificial Intelligence
Raj Reddy	Educator	13-Jun-1937		Professor of Computer Science, CMU
Dennis Ritchie	Computer Programmer	9-Sep-1941		Co-Creator of UNIX
Ron Rivest	Computer Programmer	1947		The R in RSA
Adi Shamir	Mathematician	1952		The S in RSA
Herbert A. Simon	Economist	15-Jun-1916	9-Feb-2001	Administrative Behavior
Ivan Sutherland	Engineer	16-May-1938		Father of computer graphics
Ken Thompson	Computer Programmer	4-Feb-1943		Co-creator of UNIX
Niklaus Wirth	Computer Programmer	15-Feb-1934		Inventor of Pascal, Modula-2

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