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Picture of Alan J Perlis

Alan J Perlis was born this month!

Born: April 1, 1922

Alan Jay Perlis was an American mathematician and computer scientist, and the first recipient of the A.M. Turing Award. He played a key role in establishing computer science as an academic field, and was instrumental in developing advanced programming techniques and compiler construction. Perlis was the head of several computer science departments, and his work contributed to the development of ALGOL, the precursor to Pascal. He was also known for his philosophical approach to computer programming, which he captured in his "Epigrams on Programming".

Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 🇺🇸

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Robert Metcalfe was born this month!

Born: April 7, 1946

Robert Metcalfe is a computer engineer and entrepreneur who played a significant role in the development of Ethernet. While working at Xerox in the 1970s, he was tasked with creating a networking system for the company's personal computers, which led to the invention of Ethernet. Metcalfe later founded 3Com and worked to promote the use of personal computers and local area networks. He also formulated Metcalfe's Law, which states that the value of a network increases as the square of the number of nodes in the network.

Birthplace: New York City, USA 🇺🇸

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Yukihiro Matsumoto was born this month!

Born: April 14, 1965

Yukihiro Matsumoto, also known as Matz, is a Japanese computer scientist and software programmer who created the Ruby programming language by blending parts of his favorite languages, including Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp. Matsumoto's aim was to make Ruby a natural and balanced language that mirrored life. Since its public release in 1995, Ruby has grown to become a highly popular and influential programming language, with a devoted community of developers worldwide. Matsumoto's vision for Ruby has contributed to its success, making it simple in appearance yet complex inside.

Birthplace: Osaka, Japan 🇯🇵

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Eduard Stiefel was born this month!

Born: April 21, 1909

Eduard Stiefel was a Swiss mathematician who made important contributions to the development of computers and programming, particularly in the area of numerical analysis. He co-invented the Gauss-Seidel method, a widely used iterative method for solving linear systems of equations, and played a key role in the development of the ERMETH computer, the first electronic computer in Switzerland.

Birthplace: Zurich, Switzerland 🇨🇭

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Eric Schmidt was born this month!

Born: April 27, 1955

Eric Schmidt is an American software engineer and businessman who served as the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011. He has also held executive positions at Sun Microsystems and Novell. Schmidt is known for his contributions to the development of Google's search engine and for his work on artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Birthplace: Washington DC, USA 🇺🇸

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Kurt Gödel was born this month!

Born: April 28, 1906

Kurt Gödel was an Austrian mathematician and logician who made significant contributions to mathematical logic and philosophy. He is best known for his incompleteness theorems, which showed that there are mathematical statements that cannot be proven or disproven within a given formal system.

Birthplace: Brno, Czech Republic 🇨🇿

Picture of Claude Shannon

Claude Shannon was born this month!

Born: April 30, 1916

Claude Shannon was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist and cryptographer known as the “father of information theory”. He laid the theoretical foundations for digital circuits and information theory. His most influential work was “A Mathematical Theory of Communication” (1948), which introduced the concept of entropy as a measure of information content and established the fundamental principles of information theory .

Birthplace: Petoskey, Michigan, USA 🇺🇸