## Various people relevant to the material we're studying ## * [Alonzo Church](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonzo_Church) * [Alan Turing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing) * [Haskell Curry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Curry) * [John McCarthy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_%28computer_scientist%29) * [Gerald Sussman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Jay_Sussman) and [Guy Steele](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_L._Steele,_Jr.) * [Dana Scott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Scott) * [Nicolaas de Bruijn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaas_Govert_de_Bruijn) * [Gordon Plotkin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Plotkin) ## Other people important to computer science, but less directly to us ## * [Charles Babbage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage) * [Ada Lovelace](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace) * [John von Neumann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann) * [Edsger Dijkstra](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra) * [Dennis Ritchie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie) * [Donald Knuth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth)