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Genius People - was looking for people that contributed to awk/computing:
sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann_Medal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage_Institute
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Medal_of_Technology#Laureates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Medal_of_Science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckert-Mauchly_Award
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_Medal_of_Honor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_History_Museum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Kyoto_Prize_winners
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Murray_Hopper_Award
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_computer_scientists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canadian_computer_scientists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Scientists_at_Bell_Labs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemelson-MIT_Prize
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Prize
(wiki name) (associations) (dates) (home page)
BL == bell labs; G == google; CA == canadian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage 1791-1871
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace 1815-1852
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann polymath 1903-1957
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing 1912-1954
Father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Watson,_Jr. IBM 7094/360/370 1914-1993
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming 1915-1998
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray CDC 1925-1996
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Olsen DEC 1926-2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Noyce Intel 1927-1990
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moore Intel 1929-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra 1930-2002
"Go To Statement Considered Harmful"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks OS/360 1931-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_McIlroy un1x pipes, BL 1932-
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Gordon_Bell DEC PDP/VAX 1934-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Grove Intel 1936-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Floyd 1936-2001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_E._Knuth 1938-
''The Art of Computer Programming'' the "father" of the analysis of algorithms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_M._Ritchie C/un1x BL 1941-2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Aho BL, CA, awk 1941-
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~aho/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan BL, CA, awk 1942-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler DEC RSX11M, VMS, Windows NT 1942-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Ullman BL 1942-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_J._Weinberger BL, G, awk 1942-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson C/un1x/go BL, G 1943-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil 1948-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Koenig_(programmer) BL 1952-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Bentley BL 1953-
http://netlib.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?JonBentley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Joy BSD, vi, SUN 1954-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates 1955-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs 1955-2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt BL, G 1955-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike go, BL, G, CA 1956
http://research.google.com/pubs/r.html
http://herpolhode.com/rob/ http://genius.cat-v.org/rob-pike/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Page G 1973-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin G 1973-
also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath
eg Ada Lovelace, Leonardo da Vinci, Marilyn vos Savant(?),
Thomas Edison, John von Neumann, Archimedes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius 551û479 BCE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle 384û322 BCE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_A._Pickover 1957-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Cartman 1989-
http://genius.cat-v.org/eric-cartman/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_McCormick 1989-???
'' Oh my G0d ! They killed Kenny ! ... You b@st@rds ! ''
Hotel Genius http://genius.cat-v.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_information_technology_companies
