List the names of important people in Computer Science and their contributions to the field. I will start.
Grace Hopper - She built the first compiler named A-0. She is credited with popularizing the term debugging, because she found a real bug (a moth) stuck in a relay therefore impeding the system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer As of 2011[update], his personal wealth is estimated at US$14.5 billion, ranking number 46 on the Forbes list of billionaires.
I dunno how you can be more important in CS.
I would have been in the top 100 most important people in computer science. However, my Jewish professor took credit for my doctoral work and conspired to discredit my name in front of an ethics review board, resulting in all of my credentials being revoked and me being kicked out of university. These days, I pack fudge at a local cannery down by the docks to make a living.
I asked God what makes elephants happy... "baths". I asked what they think about... said something about itching and hunger.
God says...
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our old father that thou art alive, even wert thou the deepest dungeon of
Barbary; for his wealth and my brother's and mine would rescue thee
thence! Oh beautiful and generous Zoraida, that I could repay thy good
goodness to a brother! That I could be present at the new birth of thy
soul, and at thy bridal that would give us all such happiness!"
All this and more the Judge uttered with such deep emotion at the news he
had received of his brother that all who heard him shared in it, showing
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Jesus said of Himself, "I am meek and humble of heart." Humble of head? Proud of heart means you do not accept a gift... from God, like birthright. Proud of heart means you are like Judas who complained about Christ spending $30,000 for perfume.
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COMPUTER DREECK2011-09-11 3:39
Corbató and the rest of the Project MAC people, for CTSS and Multics, the first timesharing systems worth remembering, and the inventors of most of systems research.
The Sussman, for soaking tens of thousands of CS students in parentheses for all eternity.
Tom Knight, because you are an inferior being to his surreal oneness with the lambda calculus.
The set of all significant Unix beards (Thompson, K&R, Knuth, etc.)
Stroustrup, for showing us that you really can ruin near-perfect minimalism.
James Gosling, for daring to give us an exhaustive proof of why OOP is unsalvageably brain-damaged, instead of relying on general and vague remarks like most programmers.
Alan Turing, for showing us that even if you invent an introductory language worse than Pascal, you can always commit suicide to get out of the bad press.
Charles Babbage, because who the fuck ever heard of J. H. Müller?
Von Neumann, for everything, but mostly the look on AI students' faces when they first learn about the Monte Carlo method.
Stephen Cook, the bastard who gave us NP-completeness, thereby ruining everyone's happy dreams forever, and thus a worthy successor to the guy (don't remember his name) who originally came to the revelation that most of coding is debugging.
Stallman, for the thirty years of moldy smegma that constitute Emacs's etc directory (seriously, have you looked in there? It is gross.)
SICP is mush-brained drivel by a pseudo-intellectual cockpouch. It's right up there with TAOCP and K&R as things that idiots read to make people think they're smart.
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Anonymous2011-09-11 7:29
doubles
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Anonymous2011-09-11 9:34
You haven't talked about Knuth yet? Fuck you then.
Leibniz invented the binary system, know him.
Stephen Cook, Von Neumann and Alan Turing are also the first names that come to me.
>>29
Yep! Stallman deserved his place right between Guido and Ballmer, for his support to Worse is Better movement. Remember, every time you see "segmentation fault" or KDE leakes a few Gb, it's Stallman, who must be praised.
>>31 KDE leakes a few Gb
That's an entirely different set of retards.
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Anonymous2011-09-11 20:06
>>20
>Stroustrup, for showing us that you really can ruin near-perfect minimalism.
Yes.
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Anonymous2011-09-11 20:11
>>32 http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=93344
This morning i turned the pc on, booted ok, but freezed withing a few seconds.
Couldnt even do anything with ttys, freezed as well. But at least there i was able to see some messages before a total freeze: Out of memory: kill process.
So i restarted again and quickly opened system monitor: 4700 processes and my 4GB of RAM full after a few seconds. Then the freeze.
I booted in recovery mode, and then i run "/etc/rc.d/kdm start"
This way everything goes normal everytime. Normal boot leads to memory leak situation.
I didnt have much time to look but with top it looked like there was several instances of plasma desktop, every one of them consuming lots of ram.
>>34
I got it. It was nothing related to kde, as i suspected once init was giving me problems.
I had in modprobe.d a .conf file trying to load a module, already loaded (in rc.local) but with the --ignore-install option, so it tried to load it over and over.
Thx to everyone for the support, and sorry i wasted your time.
BTW, as I'm not able to do manually loading cause systemd, how is the right way to load via modprobe.d? Because i'm using modprobe in rc.local by the time being, but i dont like this solution.
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Anonymous2011-09-11 23:44
Niggers. Look at them, recall you're not a nigger. Study harder.
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Anonymous2011-09-12 1:09
>>36
It's still Worse is Better related. Modprobe framework has all the beauty of C/C++ design approach.
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Anonymous2011-09-12 4:03
>the beauty of C/C++ design approach.
The words evoke the scenes from abandoned factory maze of pipes with half-rotten passageways wrapping over themself and defying Euclidean laws. Unknown horrors lurk beneath, ready to be modprobed by a ray of flashlight.
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chunky dee2011-09-12 4:32
i got say the most respected name in computer science hands down is chunky dizzel u other niggas need to stop frontin