Interesting People
§ memes
posted 22 Mar 2005;
modified 07 May 2008
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
…begging to be Googled
- Alan Turing: the UTM
- Alonzo Church: computability
- Charles Babbage: first mechanical computer
- Ada Lovelace: “first programmer”, worked with Babbage
- Chris Langton: artificial life
- Claude Shannon: information theory
- Descarte: philosopher, mathematician
- Ed moore: artificial living plant
- Erik Drexler: nanotechnology
- George Boole: Boolean arithmetic
- H.R. Giger: artist who drew aliens
- John Conway: Game of Life
- John von Neumann: computer science
- Robert Rosen: Mathematical biology
- Stuart Kauffman: Complexity and biophysics, just missed him at Penn
- Peter Gabriel: Cool reminiscent software design stories
- Hal Caswell: no description yet
