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