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Solid set of contributors (1956).
As this is getting some attention and not everyone on the list is famous outside of CS history circles, here's a little bit about each of these people:
Ashby was a psychiatrist by training who pioneered cybernetics, systems theory and what we now call complex systems. His book _Design for a Brain_ and _An Introduction to Cybernetics_ were very influential mid-century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Ross_A…
Culbertson was an early neural net pioneer who also worked on theories of mind:
quantumtantra.blogspot.com/2009/06/james-…
(why no Wiki entry?!?)
Martin Davis (b 1928!) is still a mathematician. He worked on Turing machines and received his PhD from Alonzo Church (inventor of Lambda Calculus). He also did work leading to SAT solvers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Da…
Kleene was also a student of Alonzo Church. He founded recursion theory and invented regular expressions. We use an `*` to match everything because of the “Kleene star”.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_C…
Karel De Leeuw was a mathematician famous for work on harmonic and functional analysis. Sadly, killed by one of his grad students.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_deL…
Donald MacKay — founder of the British school of information theory, neuroscience, brain organization, epistemology.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ma…
John McCarthy — Invented (I would say “discovered”) Lisp, garbage collection, the “if” statement, utility computing, co-founded the field of AI, predicted half of the modern world’s technology.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCa…
Marvin Minsky — an endless series of inventions and ideas, co-invented AI, mentored several generations of MIT’s best computer scientists.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Mi…
Edward Moore — invented the form of finite state machine that we all still use, was an early artificial life pioneer who gives him name to the technique used in the Game of Life. Worked on “Probabilistic Machines” with Shannon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_F.…
Claude Shannon — you live in a world he largely invented. Logic circuits in his masters thesis, and later information theory.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Sh…
Norman Shapiro, another student of Alonzo Church, is known for his work on computability. He spent 40 years at the RAND corporation, where he pioneered computer-based cartography. He also co-designed MH (the old Unix email system).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Sh…
Uttley worked on probability machines, pattern recognition, AI, chess and systems to train radar operators. He’s the only one of these that I hadn’t heard of before seeing this book cover.
purbeckradar.org.uk/biography/uttl…
John von Neumann was, by all accounts, the most brilliant person alive during the 20th century.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_…
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