[clug] Re: Who's famous in the 80's and 2000's? (Sakari Mattila)

[smattila at tpg.com.au]

Gordon Bell (DEC) was big name for 1960-1980s, peaking in 1970s. DEC
made computers
available to universities and on-line real-time process users. There is
one DEC veteran 
in Canberra, Penny Collings at UC.

Konrad Zuse was a forerunner 1930-1960s with hardware and software. If I
haven't
badly misunderstood, he started structured languages in the series Algol
- Pascal - Java.
Zuse's computers used conditional substitution, not branching, and were
labeled as 
non-computers until 1990s. 

UK digital systems (crypto and telephony) people in 1940s, mainly WWII,
should have
their place in the history. Building hardware and programming was then a
mixed business.

Donald Knuth wrote his main books in early 1970s, never finished the
eight volume
series - three parts are available, fourth is known to exists as a
draft, but not in book form.

Teuvo Kohonen (Helsinki University of Technology, now Aalto University)
contributed
quite a lot in artificial neural networks and self learning systems,
thus taking computers
out of rigid pre-programmed domain.

Early microcomputer people in USA 1970s and 1980s, Tiny Basic, CP/M,
FORTH, etc.
very innovative things. Also 1970s a professor in Norway, who designed
first object-oriented
programming language.

Maybe a few more later, if I find my old memories hat.

--
Sakari Mattila
LPO Box 5080
Canberra Univ. ACT 2617
+61408533474 (SMS)
fname.sname at gmail.com

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> From: steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au>
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> Today I was trying to think of the 'leading lights' in computing for
> each of the decades its been around.
> 
> I struck a blank for the 1980's and post 2000.
> 
> Anyone got their favourites or suggestions?
> 
> This was my quick hack list :-)
> Any other suggestions happily accepted, but if you mention your
> criteria
> or the persons' field, that'd be nice.
> 
> 1930 - 1950 Turing, von Neuman, ...
> 1950 - 1960 Bob Glass, Jerry Weinberg, ...
> 1960 - 1970 Ritchie & Thompson, Codd & Date
> 1970 - 1980 BSD guys, Bill Joy, Gates, Steve Jobs
> 1980 - 1990 ???
> 1990 - 2000 Linus & Tridge
> 2000 - 2010 ???
> 
> cheers
> steve
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