Other sites with famous computer scientists

Here is a random selection of "Famous Computer Scientists" sites. There are actiually lots of such sites out there, so this page will always be under construction. Go here to let me know of any that really ought to be put here!

Awards

• The Turing Award is ACM's most prestigious technical award. It is given to an individual selected for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community.
• The Computer Pioneer Award is maintained by the IEEE Computer Society.
• The Computer History Museum maintains a list of Fellows.
• The Emanuel R. Piore Award for Computer Science is awarded by the IEEE.
• The ACM sponsor the Allen Newell Award for career contributions that have breadth within computer science, or that bridge computer science and other disciplines.

Web page catalogues

• Google, of course, maintain a list.
• the University of Bristol maintains a list of notable women.
• ... as does the "Ada" project at Yale.
• ... and 34SP.com maintain Women in the World of Computing.
• Juha Takkinen, of the Laboratory for Intelligent Information Systems at Linköping University, maintains a list of famous Computer Scientists related to their laboratory.
• Rhys Eric Rosholt at CUNY maintains a list of Famous Computer Scientists.
• A page of Biographies Pioneers of computing is maintained by the History of Computing Foundation.
• The Internet Pioneers site is the Masters project of Scott Griffin, of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina.
• The Computer Hall of Fame catalogues a number of influential contributions.

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