people.mdwn

   1 ## Various people relevant to the material we're studying ##
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   3 * [Alonzo Church](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo_Church)
   4 * [Alan Turing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing)
   5 * [Haskell Curry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry)
   6 * [John McCarthy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_%28computer_scientist%29) <!-- "AI", Lisp -->
   7 * [Gerald Sussman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Jay_Sussman) <!-- Scheme, SICP --> and [Guy Steele](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_L._Steele,_Jr.)
   8 * [Dana Scott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Scott)
   9 * [Nicolaas de Bruijn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaas_Govert_de_Bruijn)
  10 * [Gordon Plotkin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Plotkin)
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  12 ## Other people important to computer science, but less directly to us ##
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  14 * [Charles Babbage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage)
  15 * [Ada Lovelace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace)
  16 * [John von Neumann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann)
  17 * [Edsger Dijkstra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra)
  18 * [Dennis Ritchie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie)
  19 * [Donald Knuth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth)