Query: famous computer scientists disappeared at sea

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9 North <=SEP=> 9 North, or Nine North, is a region of hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise in the Pacific Ocean, 900 kilometers off the coast of Acapulco, Mexico; it has been so named by scientists because its latitude is 9°50' N. It was first seen to erupt in 1991 by the deep submersible Alvin during a survey for the Ocean Drilling Program. In November 1999, scientists, students, education specialists, and film crews returned to 9 North to see how the biology and landscape had changed over time.

Academic genealogy of computer scientists <=SEP=> The following is an academic genealogy of computer scientists and is constructed by following the pedigree of thesis advisors.

Adele Goldberg (computer scientist) <=SEP=> Adele Goldberg (born July 7, 1945) is a computer scientist who participated in the development of the programming language Smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to object-oriented programming while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, PARC, in the 1970s.Goldberg was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois.

Advanced Gravis Computer Technology <=SEP=> Advanced Gravis Computer Technology, Ltd. was a manufacturer of computer peripherals and hardware. The company was founded in 1982 in British Columbia, Canada.Their most famous products were the Gravis PC GamePad, at one time one of the most popular gaming controllers for the PC, the once-ubiquitous Gravis Joystick (black with red buttons), and the Gravis Ultrasound add-on card, competitor to the Sound Blaster.

Aimée Leduc <=SEP=> Aimée Leduc is a fictional character who first appeared in print in 1998.  She is the creation of author Cara Black.  She is a Paris-based, modern, female, private investigator.  The bestselling mystery series is called Aimée Leduc Investigations.Aimée Leduc is French, born to an American mother and a French police investigator. Her mother disappeared when she is 8 years old and she is raised by her father, who removes all reminder of her mother's existence. She lives in Paris during the 1990s.

Albert Lindsey Zobrist <=SEP=> Albert Lindsey Zobrist  (born February 27, 1942) is an American computer scientist, games researcher, and inventor of the famous Zobrist Hashing, which was published in 1970. He is further author of the first Go program in 1968 as part of his PhD Thesis on pattern recognition at the Computer Science Department of the University of Wisconsin.

Alexander Kuchin <=SEP=> Alexander Stepanovich Kuchin (Russian: Александр Степанович Кучин) (1888 in Onega – 1913? in an unknown place in the Kara Sea) was a young Russian oceanographer and Arctic explorer.Hailing from a humble background, Alexander Kuchin became a seaman in a Norwegian ship already when he was seventeen.

Alick Glennie <=SEP=> Alick Edwards Glennie (1925–2003) was a British computer scientist, most famous for having developed Autocode, which many people regard as the first ever computer compiler. Glennie worked with Alan Turing on several projects, including the Manchester Mark 1. He also played the first ever game of computer chess, although it was played against a program not capable of being run on the computers of the day: the chess program was devised by Alan Turing, and operated with pen and paper by Turing.

Anil K. Jain (computer scientist, born 1948) <=SEP=> Anil K. Jain (born 1948) is an Indian-American computer scientist and University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Michigan State University, known for his contributions in the fields of pattern recognition, computer vision and biometric recognition. Based on his Google Scholar profile, he has an h-index of 150, which is the second highest (after Herbert A.

Avrim Blum <=SEP=> Avrim Blum (born 27 May 1966) is a prominent computer scientist.  In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to learning theory and algorithms." Blum attended MIT, where he received his Ph.D. in 1991 under professor Ron Rivest.

Barbara E. Moo <=SEP=> Barbara E. Moo is an American Computer Scientist known for co-authoring several books on C++, working on an early product written in C++, and directing AT&T's WorldNet AT&T's Internet services business.

Bashir Rameyev <=SEP=> Bashir Iskandarovich Rameyev (Russian: Баши́р Исканда́рович Раме́ев; 1 May 1918 – 16 May 1994) was a Soviet inventor and scientist, one of the founders of Soviet computing, author of 23 patents, including the first officially registered in the USSR patent in the field of electronic computers—a patent for the Automatic Electronic Digital Machine (1948).

Bishop-fish <=SEP=> The sea bishop or bishop-fish was a type of sea monster reported in the 16th century. According to legend, it was taken to the King of Poland, who wished to keep it. It was also shown to a group of Catholic bishops, to whom the bishop-fish gestured, appealing to be released. They granted its wish, at which point it made the sign of the cross and disappeared into the sea.Another was supposedly captured in the ocean near Germany in 1531. It refused to eat and died after three days.

Butler Lampson <=SEP=> Butler W. Lampson (born December 23, 1943) is a computer scientist.After graduating from the Lawrenceville School (where in 2009 he was awarded the Aldo Leopold Award, also known as the Lawrenceville Medal, Lawrenceville's highest award to alumni), Lampson received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from Harvard University in 1964, and his Ph.D.

Clarence Ellis (computer scientist) <=SEP=> Clarence "Skip" Ellis was an American computer scientist, and Emeritus Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. While at the CU-Boulder, he was the director of the Collaboration Technology Research Group and a member of the Institute of Cognitive Science. Ellis was the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science (1969), and the first African-American to be elected a Fellow of the ACM (1997).

Claude Shannon <=SEP=> Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electronic engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".Shannon is famous for having founded information theory with a landmark paper that he published in 1948.

Cliff Jones (computer scientist) <=SEP=> This page refers to the British computer scientist. For other persons named Cliff Jones, see Cliff Jones (disambiguation).Clifford "Cliff" B. Jones (born 1 June 1944) is a British computer scientist, specializing in research into formal methods. He undertook a late DPhil at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Oxford University Department of Computer Science) under Tony Hoare, awarded in 1981.

Committee on Human Rights of Scientists <=SEP=> The Committee on Human Rights of Scientists of the New York Academy of Sciences "was formed in 1978 to pursue the advancement of the basic human rights of scientists throughout the world.

Computer science <=SEP=> Computer science is the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications. It is the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical procedures (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to information. An alternate, more succinct definition of computer science is the study of automating algorithmic processes that scale.

Computer scientist <=SEP=> A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application.Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computer systems, as opposed to the hardware side that computer engineers mainly focus on (although there is overlap).

David Forsyth (computer scientist) <=SEP=> David Forsyth is a South African computer scientist and full professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, born in South Africa. He is married to Margaret Fleck, who is also a professor at the University of Illinois, and has three children.He holds a BSc and an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and an MA andD.Phil from Oxford University. He was a full professor at U.C.

David Hartley (computer scientist) <=SEP=> David Fielding Hartley FBCS (born 14 September 1937) is a computer scientist and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He was Director of the University of Cambridge Computing Service from 1970–1994, Chief Executive of United Kingdom Joint Academic Network (JANET) 1994–1997, and Executive Director of Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) 1997–2002.

David Turner (computer scientist) <=SEP=> David A. Turner (born 1946) is a British computer scientist.He has a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.

Digerati <=SEP=> The digerati (or digiterati) are the elite of the computer industry and online communities.  The word is a portmanteau, derived from "digital" and "literati", and reminiscent of the earlier coinage glitterati (glitter + literati). Famous computer scientists, tech magazine writers and well-known bloggers are included among the digerati.The word is used in several related but different ways.

Disappearance of Genette Tate <=SEP=> Genette Louise Tate (5 May 1965 – disappeared 19 August 1978) is an English girl whose disappearance  became a famous missing person case when she went missing at age 13 while delivering newspapers in Aylesbeare, Devon, England.

Disappearing gun <=SEP=> A disappearing gun, a gun mounted on a disappearing carriage was a type of artillery used in the past which enabled a gun to hide from direct fire and observation.  In the overwhelming majority of designs, the gun carriage enabled the gun to rotate backwards and down behind a parapet, or into a pit protected by a wall after it was fired; a small number were simply barbette mounts on a retractable platform.

Douglas T. Ross <=SEP=> Douglas Taylor "Doug" Ross (21 December 1929 – 31 January 2007) was an American computer scientist pioneer, and Chairman of SofTech, Inc.  He is most famous for originating the term CAD for computer-aided design, and is considered to be the father of Automatically Programmed Tools (APT) a language to drive numerically controlled manufacturing.

Ettore Majorana <=SEP=> Ettore Majorana  (Italian: [ˈɛttore majoˈraːna]; born on 5 August 1906 – probably dead after 1959) was an Italian theoretical physicist who worked on neutrino masses. He disappeared suddenly under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. The Majorana equation and Majorana fermions are named after him.In 2006, the Majorana Prize was established in his memory.

Evi Nemeth <=SEP=> Evi Nemeth (born June 7, 1940 – missing-at-sea June or July, 2013) was an engineer, author, and teacher known for her expertise in computer system administration and networks. She was the lead author of the “bibles” of system administration: UNIX System Administration Handbook (1989, 1995, 2000), Linux Administration Handbook (2002, 2006), and UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (2010).

Francisque Arban <=SEP=> Francisque Arban, also known as Francesco Arban di Lione (born 1815 - disappeared 7 October 1849), was a French balloonist.  In 1849, he was the first person to cross the Alps in a balloon, a feat not repeated until 1924.  He disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea in 1849.Arban was born in Lyons, one of the ten children of Simon Arban, artificier.  A younger brother was the cornetist Jean-Baptiste Arban.He made several balloon flights starting in 1832, but mostly in Italy between 1845 and 1849.

Hank Levy (computer scientist) <=SEP=> Henry M. Levy "\Hank" Levy) is an American computer scientist. He holds the Wissner-Slivka Chair in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington (U.W.).Levy's research concerns operating systems, distributed systems, the internet, and computer architecture.  In his early career, Levy worked at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), where he was a member of the design and engineering team for the VMS operating system for the VAX computer.

Hao Li <=SEP=> Hao Li is a computer scientist and a faculty at the Department of Computer Science at University of Southern California.  He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Grit Enterprises Inc. He was a Visiting Professor at Weta Digital and research lead at Industrial Light & Magic.  He is best known for his contributions to nonrigid shape registration.

Henri Gouraud (computer scientist) <=SEP=> Henri Gouraud (born 1944) is a French computer scientist. He is the inventor of Gouraud shading used in computer graphics. He is the great nephew of general Henri Gouraud.During 1964–1967, he studied at École Centrale Paris.  He received his Ph.D.

Hilary Kahn <=SEP=> Hilary Kahn (1943 – 2007) was a British computer scientist who spent most of her career as a professor at the University of Manchester, where she worked on computer-aided design and information modeling. Kahn participated in the development of the Manchester MU5 computer. Later she became involved in standards development and was both the chair of the Technical Experts Group and a member of the Steering Committee for the development of the EDIF (Electronic Design Interchange Format) standard.

Ivan Bratko (computer scientist) <=SEP=> Ivan Bratko (born June 10, 1946; Ljubljana) is a Slovene computer scientist.Bratko received his Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Ljubljana. He is a D. Sc. Professor of Computer and Information Science at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science at the University of Ljubljana (Fakulteta za računalništvo in informatiko v Ljubljani). Bratko became an associate member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts on May 27, 1997, and he has been full member since June 12, 2003.

Jim Gray (computer scientist) <=SEP=> James Nicholas "Jim" Gray (born January 12, 1944; lost at sea January 28, 2007; declared deceased May 16, 2012) was an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award  in 1998 "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation."

Jim Thompson (designer) <=SEP=> James Harrison Wilson "Jim" Thompson, (born 21 March 1906 — disappeared 26 March 1967) was an American businessman who helped revitalise the Thai silk industry in the 1950s and 1960s. At the time of his disappearance he was one of the most famous Americans living in Asia. Time magazine claimed he "almost singlehanded(ly) saved Thailand's vital silk industry from extinction".

Joel Moses <=SEP=> Joel Moses (born 1941) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Joel Moses was born in Palestine in 1941 and emigrated to the U.S. in 1954. He attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York. He received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Columbia University and a master's degree in Mathematics, also from Columbia.

John Long (computer scientist) <=SEP=> John Brian Long (born 3 December 1935) is a British computer scientist and Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Engineering at the University College London, known for his work on "cognitive ergonomics and human-computer interaction."

Leonid Khachiyan <=SEP=> Leonid Genrikhovich Khachiyan (Armenian: Լեոնիդ Գենրիխովիչ Խաչիյան; Russian: Леонид Генрихович Хачиян; May 3, 1952 – April 29, 2005) was a Soviet mathematician of Armenian descent who taught Computer Science at Rutgers University. He was most famous for his Ellipsoid algorithm (1979) for linear programming, which was the first such algorithm known to have a polynomial running time.

List of Horizon episodes <=SEP=> Horizon is a current and long-running BBC popular science and philosophy documentaryprogramme. Series one was broadcast in 1964 and as of August 2014 is in its 51st series.  Nearly 1200 episodes have been broadcast (including specials) with an average of 24 episodes per series during the 50-year run. 1964–1969 – 135 episodes  1970–1979 – 299 episodes 1980–1989 – 234 episodes 1990–1999 – 220 episodes 2000–2009 – 193 episodes 2010–present – 111 episodes

List of Jewish American computer scientists <=SEP=> This is a list of famous Jewish American computer scientists.  For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.

List of New Zealand scientists <=SEP=> This page is a list of New Zealand scientists with articles on Wikipedia and is necessarily incomplete. Alexander Aitken - mathematician/statistician, writer, mental calculator, musician Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes - heart surgeon Gary Bold - physicist  Paul Callaghan - famous for work in magnetic resonance John G. Cleary - computer scientist Leonard Cockayne - botanist Leslie Comrie - computer pioneer G. H.

List of Russian IT developers <=SEP=> This list of Russian IT developers includes the hardware engineers, computer scientists and programmers from the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.See also Category:Russian computer scientists and Category:Russian computer programmers.

List of Slovenian computer scientists <=SEP=> This is a list of the best-known Slovenian computer scientists. Vladimir Batagelj (1948–) Andrej Bauer (1971–) Ivan Bratko (1946–) Primož Jakopin Aleksandar Jurišič Ivo Lah (1896–1979) Marko Petkovšek (1955–) Tomaž Pisanski (1949–)  Bogdan Pogorelc Jurij Vega (1754–1802) Egon Zakrajšek (1941–2002)

List of computer scientists <=SEP=> This is a list of computer scientists, people who do work in computer science, in particular researchers and authors.Some persons notable as programmers are included here because they work in research as well as program. A few of these people pre-date the invention of the digital computer; they are now regarded as computer scientists because their work can be seen as leading to the invention of the computer.

List of people who disappeared mysteriously <=SEP=> This is a list of people who disappeared mysteriously, and whose current whereabouts are unknown or whose deaths are not substantiated, as well as a few cases of people whose disappearances were notable and remained mysterious for a long time, but were eventually explained.

List of programmers <=SEP=> This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. All entries should already have associated articles.

Lists of people <=SEP=> People in these lists may have either unspecified traits, or specific characteristics (e. g. the people of Spain or the people of the Plains). Lists of people include the following non-fictional characters:

Lois Haibt <=SEP=> Lois Haibt is an American computer scientist, and is perhaps most famous for being a member of the ten-person team at IBM that developed FORTRAN, the first successful high level programming language.

Lov Grover <=SEP=> Lov Kumar Grover (born 1961 in Meerut) is an Indian-American computer scientist. He is the originator of the Grover database search algorithm used in quantum computing.

Manureva <=SEP=> The Manureva (originally named Pen Duick IV) was a trimaran famous for having disappeared at sea, skippered by Alain Colas, during the first “Route du Rhum” transatlantic solo race. This race runs 3,510 miles (5,650 km) on a great circle route from Saint-Malo (France) to Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe, France) and takes place every four years, in the month of November.

Martin Newell (computer scientist) <=SEP=> Martin Edward Newell is a British-born computer scientist specializing in computer graphics who is perhaps best known as the creator of the Utah teapot computer model.

Matt Welsh (computer scientist) <=SEP=> Matthew David "Matt" Welsh is a computer scientist and software engineer at Google.

Melvin Conway <=SEP=> Melvin Edward Conway was an early computer scientist, computer programmer, and hacker who coined what's now known as Conway's Law: "Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations."Apart from the above, Conway is perhaps most famous for his seminal paper on coroutines.

Michael Luck (computer scientist) <=SEP=> Prof. Michael Luck is a computer scientist based at the Department of Computer Science, King's College London, in central London, England. He leads the Agents and Intelligent Systems (AIS) section.From 1993 to 2000, Michael Luck was based in the Department of Computer Science                  at the University of Warwick. From 2000 to 2006, Luck was a professor in the School of Electronics and Computer Science                  at the University of Southampton.

Michael P. Barnett <=SEP=> Michael Peter Barnett (24 March 1929 – 13 March 2012) was a British theoretical chemist and computer scientist. He developed mathematical and computer techniques for quantum chemical problems, and some of the earliest software for several other kinds of computer application.

Michael Spivey <=SEP=> John Michael Spivey (commonly known as Mike Spivey) is a British computer scientist at the University of Oxford.Spivey was born in 1960 and educated at Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School in York, England.

Missing person <=SEP=> A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as his or her location and fate are not known. Laws related to missing persons are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued.

Mitsunori Miki <=SEP=> Mitsunori Miki (三木 光範, Miki Mitsunori, born 1950) is a famous Japanese engineer. He is a professor of engineering department, knowledge engineering course of Doshisha University. Parallel computing, System engineering and Intelligent System Designing are in his line. His laboratory is called Intelligent System Design Laboratory (ISDL). Now he studies System optimization by Parallel Distributed Processing, Genetic Algorithm and computer clustering.

Nadia Magnenat Thalmann <=SEP=> Nadia Magnenat Thalmann is a Swiss Canadian computer graphics scientist, Director of the Institute for Media Innovation (IMI) in Singapore at Nanyang Technological University, and founder and head of the MIRALab Research Laboratory at the University of Geneva.

Nikolay Brusentsov <=SEP=> Nikolay Petrovich Brusentsov (Russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Брусенцо́в; 7 February 1925 in Kamenskoe, Ukrainian SSR – 4 December 2014) was a Russian computer scientist, most famous for having built a (balanced) ternary computer, Setun, together with Sergei Sobolev in 1958.He died on 4 December 2014.

Paul Larson <=SEP=> Paul Larson (Per-Åke Larson) is a computer scientist. He is most famous for inventing the linear hashing algorithm with Witold Litwin. Paul Larson is currently a senior researcher in the Database Group of Microsoft Research. He is frequent chair and committee member of conferences such as VLDB, SIGMOD, and ICDE.In 2004 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Paul Tseng <=SEP=> Paul Tseng was a Taiwanese-born American and Canadian applied mathematician and a professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington. Tseng was recognized by his peers to be one of the leading optimization researchers of his generation.Paul Tseng went missing while kayaking in the Yangtze River in the Yunnan province of China and is presumed dead.

Peter Robinson (computer scientist) <=SEP=> Peter Robinson is Professor of Computer Technology at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in England, where he works in the Rainbow Group on computer graphics and interaction. He is also a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and lives in Cambridge.

Peter Shor <=SEP=> Peter Williston Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT, most famous for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical computer.

Peuce Island <=SEP=> Peuce in ancient geography was an island located in the Danube Delta, in Scythia Minor (present-day Tulcea County, Romania). Its name came from the ancient Greek word peuke, 'pine tree'. It was about the size of the island of Rhodes. The island disappeared during the early Middle Ages, when the river changed its course.It was to this island that in the 330s BC the West Thracian Triballian king Syrmus took refuge when pursued by Alexander the Great.

Prostitution in Laos <=SEP=> Prostitution in Laos is regarded as a criminal activity and is much less common than it is in neighbouring Thailand. The capital city Vientiane was once famous for its brothels and ping pong show bars during the 1960s and 1970s as a result of the country's involvement in the Vietnam War. However, the brothels have since disappeared and are now prohibited by Lao law. Soliciting for prostitution instead takes place mainly in the city's bars and clubs.

Radia Perlman <=SEP=> Radia Joy Perlman (born January 1, 1951) is a software designer and network engineer. She is most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol (STP), which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges, while working for Digital Equipment Corporation.

René Guilbaud <=SEP=> René Guilbaud (8 October 1890 – 18 June 1928) was an early-20th-century French military aviator.

Resources, events, agents (accounting model) <=SEP=> Resources, events, agents (REA) is a model of how an accounting system can be re-engineered for the computer age. REA was originally proposed in 1982 by William E. McCarthy as a generalized accounting model, and contained the concepts of resources, events and agents (McCarthy 1982).REA is a popular model in teaching accounting information systems (AIS), but it is rare in business practice. Most companies cannot easily dismantle their legacy data warehouse systems or are unwilling to do so.

Robert R. Korfhage <=SEP=> Robert Roy Korfhage (December 2, 1930 - November 20, 1998) was an American computer scientist, famous for his contributions to information retrieval and several textbooks.He was  son of Dr. Roy Korfhage who as a chemist at Nestlé in Fulton, Oswego County, New York.  Korfhagegot his bachelors (1952) in engineering mathematics at University of Michigan, while working part time at United Aircraft and Transport Corporation in East Hartford as programmer.

Roberto Di Cosmo <=SEP=> Roberto Di Cosmo is a computer scientist and director of IRILL, the Innovation and research initiative for free software (French: Initiative pour la Recherche et l'Innovation sur le Logiciel Libre).He graduated from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and has a PhD from the University of Pisa, before becoming tenured professor at the École normale supérieure in Paris, then professor at the Paris 7 University.Di Cosmo was an early member of the AFUL, association of the French community of Linux and Free Software users, he's also known for his support in the Open Source Software movement.He became famous after releasing a paper against Microsoft in 1998 : Piège dans le cyberespace (Hijacking the world, the dark side of Microsoft).

Semyonovsky Island <=SEP=> Semyonovsky Island ('о. Семёновский' in Russian) was an island in the southwest part of the New Siberian Islands in the eastern part of the Laptev Sea. Before its disappearance, it was at 4 km2, one of the smallest islands in the archipelago. In 1945, just before it disappeared, its sea cliffs rose about 24 meters above sea level.Since it discovery, Semenovsky Island rapidly decreased in size until it disappeared between 1952 and the early 1960s.

Shi-Kuo Chang <=SEP=> Shi-kuo Chang (Chinese: 張系國; pinyin: Zhāng Xīgūo; Wade–Giles: Chang1 Hsi1-kuo1) is an internationally renowned computer scientist and writer famous for his science fiction writing. Chang was born in Chongqing in 1944 and grew up in Taiwan. After graduating from National Taiwan University, he first came to the United States in 1966 as a student at University of California, Berkeley, in Computer Science. He teaches computer science at the University of Pittsburgh.

Stephen C. Johnson <=SEP=> For the 19th-century New York politician see Stephen C. Johnson (state senator).Stephen Curtis Johnson is a computer scientist. He spent nearly 20 years at Bell Labs and AT&T where he wrote yacc, lint, spell and the Portable C Compiler.Johnson earned his PhD in mathematics but has spent his entire career in computer science. He has worked on topics as diverse as computer music, psychometrics, and VLSI design but he is best known for his work on Unix tools and the first AT&T UNIX port.

Stephen R. Bourne <=SEP=> Stephen Richard (Steve) Bourne (born 7 January 1944) is a computer scientist, originally from the United Kingdom and based in the United States for most of his career. He is most famous as the author of the Bourne shell (sh), which is the foundation for the standard command line interfaces to Unix.Bourne has a Bachelor's degree in mathematics from King's College London, England. He has a Diploma in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge.

The Future Is Wild <=SEP=> The Future Is Wild is a 2002 thirteen-part documentary television miniseries. Based on research and interviews with several scientists, the miniseries shows how life could evolve in the future if humans were to disappear from the Earth altogether through extinction.

The Gilbert Family <=SEP=> The Gilbert Family are an American family consisting of four daughters: Shannan (1986 - 2010), Sarra (1986), Sherre (1987), and Stephanie "Stevie" (1992). Their mother is Mari Gilbert, and they all live in Ellenville, New York. They became semi-famous in 2010 when their relative, Shannan went missing from the Oak Beach Home Owners Association in Long Island, New York. Shannan was a call girl who went to meet a client then for unknown reasons ran from the home and disappeared.

Vladik Kreinovich <=SEP=> Vladik Kreinovich is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA.

Weddell Sea <=SEP=> The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre. Its land boundaries are defined by the bay formed from the coasts of Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula. The easternmost point is Cape Norvegia at Princess Martha Coast, Queen Maud Land. To the east of Cape Norvegia is the King Haakon VII Sea. Much of the southern part of the sea is covered by a permanent, massive ice shelf field, the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf (not pack ice).

Why the lucky stiff <=SEP=> Until he disappeared from public view on 19 August 2009, Jonathan Gillette, known by the pseudonym  why the lucky stiff (often abbreviated as _why), was a prolific writer, cartoonist, artist, and computer programmer notable for his work with the Ruby programming language. Annie Lowrey described him "one of the most unusual, and beloved, computer programmers" in the world.

Yossi Matias <=SEP=> Yossi Matias is an Israeli computer scientist, entrepreneur and Google executive.Matias is Vice President, Engineering at Google, working in the Search organization. He is also the managing director of Google's R&D Center in Israel.He is a recipient of Gödel Prize (see citation) and is an ACM Fellow for contributions to the analysis of big data and the field of streaming algorithms.Matias established the Research and Development Center of Google in Israel.