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Robert Tappan Morris
Biography: 

Cornell University graduate student who accidentally unleashed an Internet worm in 1988. Thousands of computers were infected and subsequently crashed. Currently works as a professor at MIT.

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Ted Hoff

IRL Name: 
Marcian E. "Ted" Hoff, Jr.
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In the late 1960s, many articles had discussed the possibility of a computer on a chip. However, all concluded that the integrated circuit technology was not yet ready. Ted Hoff was the first to recognize that Intel's new silicon-gated MOS technology might make a single-chip CPU possible if a sufficiently simple architecture could be developed. Hoff developed such an architecture with just over 2000 transistors.

He is known as one of the primary inventors of the microprocessor.

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Brian W. Kernighan

IRL Name: 
Brian W. Kernighan
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Computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed greatly to Unix. Kernighan's name became widely known through co-authorship of the first book on the C programming language with Dennis Ritchie. Kernighan has said that he had no part in the design of the C language.

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Leonard Kleinrock

IRL Name: 
Leonard Kleinrock
Biography: 

Dr. Kleinrock is a computer scientist, and a professor of computer science at UCLA. His most well-known and significant work is his early work on queueing theory, which has applications in many fields, among them as a key mathematical background to packet switching, the basic technology behind the Internet. His initial contribution to this field was his doctoral thesis in 1962, published in book form in 1964; he later published several of the standard works on the subject.

From his Internet Hall of Fame Entry:

"Dr. Leonard Kleinrock pioneered the mathematical theory of packet networks, the technology underpinning the Internet. For his enormous contribution to understanding the power of packet networks he was honored with the Charles Stark Draper Award as one of the fathers of the Internet, along with Vinton Cerf, Robert Kahn, and Larry Roberts. He is a developer of ARPANET, the seedling that grew into today’s global Internet, and his laboratory’s UCLA Host computer became the first ARPANET node in September 1969. A month later, he directed the first transmission to pass over the blossoming network. "

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Lawrence G. Roberts

IRL Name: 
Lawrence G. Roberts
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Lawrence G. Roberts (born 1937) is associated with the development of the early Internet. He was chairman and CTO of Caspian Networks, but left in early 2004. Caspian ceased operation in late 2006.Roberts is now chairman of Anagran Inc., which he founded. Anagran continues work in the same area as Caspian: IP flow management with improved QoS for the Internet.

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Bjarne Stroustrup

IRL Name: 
Bjarne Stroustrup
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Computer scientist and the College of Engineering Chair Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. He is most well known for developing the C++ programming language. Uber programming mage with +1000 programming skills.

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Avi

IRL Name: 
Aviel D. Rubin
Biography: 

Professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University. Teaches courses in computer security and privacy. Primary research interest is the security of electronic voting, and is the director of the NSF ACCURATE Center. He is also an election judge in Baltimore County. Besides his faculty position, he is also the president and founder of a computer security consulting firm called Independent Security Evaluators. His hobbies are photography, soccer, tennis, sailing, golf, billiards, high tech gadgets, and playing with his kids.

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Jonathon Bruce Postel

IRL Name: 
Jonathon Bruce Postel
Biography: 

Internet Administrator Jonathan Bruce Postel (6 August 1943 - 16 October 1998) made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly in the area of standards. He is principally known for being the Editor of the Request for Comment (RFC) document series, and for serving as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority until his death. The Internet Society's Postel Award is named in his honor, as is the Postel Center at Information Sciences Institute. Postel attended UCLA, where he earned both his B.S. (1966) and M.S. (1968) in engineering, and a Ph.D. in computer science in 1974.

While at UCLA, he was involved in early work on the ARPANET; he later moved to the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California, where he spent the rest of his career.

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Andrew S. Tanenbaum

IRL Name: 
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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Professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

He is well recognized for his textbooks on computer science:

* Computer Networks, ISBN 0-13-066102-3
* Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (co-authored with Albert Woodhull), ISBN 0-13-142938-8
* Modern Operating Systems, ISBN 0-13-031358-0
* Structured Computer Organization, ISBN 0-13-148521-0
* Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, (co-authored with Maarten van Steen), ISBN 0-13-239227-5

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