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This dimension names the person credited with inventing a computing concept. Wikipedia notes that "an expert in the field is known as a computer scientist," and it is usually one such named scientist who first described a given concept. Browsing this way collects every concept credited to the same inventor.

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1945 CE 1
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Edsger W. Dijkstra

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4 entries

Alan Turing

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3 entries

John von Neumann

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3 entries

Whitfield Diffie

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3 entries

Alonzo Church

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2 entries

Leslie Lamport

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2 entries

Martin Fowler

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2 entries

Martin Hellman

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2 entries

Michael O. Rabin

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2 entries

Rudolf Bayer

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2 entries

Adi Shamir

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1 entry

Alain Colmerauer

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1 entry

Alexander Stepanov

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1 entry

Andrew Barto

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1 entry

Carl Hewitt

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1 entry

Charles Rackoff

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1 entry

Corinna Cortes

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1 entry

D. R. Fulkerson

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1 entry

Dana Scott

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1 entry

David Karger

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1 entry

Donald Knuth

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1 entry

Edgar F. Codd

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1 entry

Edward Fredkin

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1 entry

Eric Brewer

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1 entry

Gene Amdahl

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1 entry

Geoffrey Hinton

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1 entry

Grace Hopper

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1 entry

Gregor Kiczales

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1 entry

Gregory Chaitin

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1 entry

Haskell Curry

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1 entry

Jeff Dean

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1 entry

John Backus

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1 entry

John Henry Holland

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1 entry

John McCarthy

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1 entry

Judea Pearl

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1 entry

L. R. Ford Jr.

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1 entry

Larry Page

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1 entry

Nancy Lynch

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1 entry

Peter Naur

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1 entry

Richard M. Karp

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1 entry

Richard S. Sutton

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1 entry

Robert C. Martin

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1 entry

Robert Tarjan

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1 entry

Robin Milner

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1 entry

Ron Rivest

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1 entry

Sanjay Ghemawat

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1 entry

Sergey Brin

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1 entry

Shafi Goldwasser

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1 entry

Silvio Micali

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1 entry

Tony Hoare

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1 entry

Vladimir Vapnik

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1 entry

Yann LeCun

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1 entry
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Von Neumann architecture
WikipediaVon Neumann architecture, lead section
Quote, Von Neumann architecture, lead section
The von Neumann architecture-also known as the von Neumann model or Princeton architecture-is a computer architecture based on the First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, written by John von Neumann in 1945, describing designs by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering.
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