This page is still under construction.
When I get organised, this will have super links and will be
dynamically attached to the voting mechanism, but for the time being
its static.
I'll categorise results by origin of voter, shoe size, and weather.
There will be thumbnails, icons, and other uses for mice.
The scoring mechanism used is crude but tells the story fairly and
unambiguously.
Numbers are the percentage of vote attracted.
| Alan Turing | 10.32 |
| John von Neumann | 7.90 |
| Donald Knuth | 6.37 |
| Edsger Dijkstra | 5.82 |
| Charles Babbage | 5.05 |
| Grace Hopper | 3.73 |
| William Gates | 3.51 |
| Niklaus Wirth | 3.18 |
| Timothy Berners-Lee | 2.96 |
| John McCarthy | 2.31 |
| Anthony Hoare | 2.31 |
| Ada Lovelace | 2.31 |
| Edgar Codd | 2.20 |
| Steven Jobs | 1.98 |
| Marvin Minsky | 1.65 |
| The Unix team | 1.43 |
| John Backus | 1.43 |
| Fred Brooks | 1.32 |
| Alan Kay | 1.32 |
| Ivan Sutherland | 1.10 |
| Conrad Zuse | 1.10 |
| Linus Torvalds | 0.99 |
| Doug Engelbart | 0.99 |
| Alonzo Chursh | 0.99 |
| George Boole | 0.88 |
| Maurice Wilkes | 0.77 |
| David Parnas | 0.77 |
| Seymour Cray | 0.66 |
| Robin Milner | 0.66 |
| Richard Stallman | 0.66 |
| Noam Chomsky | 0.66 |
| Kurt Godel | 0.66 |
| John Eckert | 0.66 |
| Bjorn Strousrup | 0.66 |
| Vint Cerf | 0.55 |
| Kristen Nygard | 0.55 |
| John Atanasoff | 0.55 |
| Gordon Moore | 0.55 |
| Barry Boehm | 0.55 |
| Vannevar Bush | 0.44 |
| Tom Kilburn | 0.44 |
| Thomas Watson (IBM) | 0.44 |
| Steve Cook | 0.44 |
| John Bardeen (and Brittain and Shockley) | 0.44 |
| Hollerith | 0.44 |
| Herbert Simon | 0.44 |
| Claude Shannon | 0.44 |
| Robert Tarjan | 0.33 |
| JW Mauchly | 0.33 |
| Grady Booch | 0.33 |
| Blaise Pascal | 0.33 |
| Adele Goldberg | 0.33 |
| Wozniak | 0.22 |
| Robert Kowalski | 0.22 |
| Richard Karp | 0.22 |
| Pattie Maes | 0.22 |
| Naur | 0.22 |
| Joseph Weizenbaum | 0.22 |
| Jeffrey Ullman | 0.22 |
| Jacquard | 0.22 |
| Jack Kilby | 0.22 |
| Huffman | 0.22 |
| Dana Scott | 0.22 |
| Aristotle | 0.22 |
| Arbib | 0.22 |
| Anita Borg | 0.22 |
| Alan Newell | 0.22 |
| Aiken | 0.22 |
| Zadeh | 0.11 |
| Yourdon | 0.11 |
| Yoav Shoham | 0.11 |
| Yao | 0.11 |
| Wigderson | 0.11 |
| Vic Basili | 0.11 |
| Tukey | 0.11 |
| Tomlinson | 0.11 |
| Tom DeMarco | 0.11 |
| Thrun S | 0.11 |
| Thomas Kurtz | 0.11 |
| The Arabs | 0.11 |
| Sinclair | 0.11 |
| Simpson | 0.11 |
| Seymour Papert | 0.11 |
| Selfridge | 0.11 |
| Schneiderman | 0.11 |
| Roger Schank | 0.11 |
| Roger Needham | 0.11 |
| Robert Noyce | 0.11 |
| Ritchie | 0.11 |
| Riese A | 0.11 |
| Raghavan | 0.11 |
| Rabin | 0.11 |
| Plato | 0.11 |
| Peter Weener | 0.11 |
| Peter Rosza | 0.11 |
| Peter Chen | 0.11 |
| Patterson | 0.11 |
| Norbert Wiener | 0.11 |
| Nielsen | 0.11 |
| Nicholas Jennings | 0.11 |
| Newton | 0.11 |
| Nevanlinna | 0.11 |
| Napier | 0.11 |
| Maurice Gittens | 0.11 |
| Mark Weiser | 0.11 |
| Lovasz | 0.11 |
| Levi Georgio | 0.11 |
| Lehman Manny | 0.11 |
| Lamport | 0.11 |
| Kleene | 0.11 |
| Kernighan | 0.11 |
| Ken Olsen | 0.11 |
| John Reynolds | 0.11 |
| John Holland | 0.11 |
| Jim Clarke | 0.11 |
| Jean Fourier | 0.11 |
| Jack Dennis | 0.11 |
| Humphrey Watts | 0.11 |
| Humphrey | 0.11 |
| Hopcroft | 0.11 |
| Hooper Edith | 0.11 |
| Hewlett & Packard | 0.11 |
| Haskell Curry | 0.11 |
| Harson David | 0.11 |
| Harlan Mills | 0.11 |
| Haberman | 0.11 |
| Gries | 0.11 |
| Gosling | 0.11 |
| Gerald Sussman | 0.11 |
| Gene Amdahl | 0.11 |
| Fred Gruenberger | 0.11 |
| Frank Putzolo | 0.11 |
| Elliot Soloway | 0.11 |
| Ed Lazowska | 0.11 |
| Denning | 0.11 |
| Dan Bricklin | 0.11 |
| Christopher Strachey | 0.11 |
| Christopher Langton | 0.11 |
| Christopher Date | 0.11 |
| Checkland | 0.11 |
| Bob Metcalfe | 0.11 |
| Bertrand Meyer | 0.11 |
| Beck | 0.11 |
| Bayes | 0.11 |
| Bauer | 0.11 |
| Baudot | 0.11 |
| Barbara Liskov | 0.11 |
| Baran | 0.11 |
| Arvind | 0.11 |
| Archimedes | 0.11 |
| Anita Bary | 0.11 |
| Al'khowarizmi | 0.11 |
| Aad van Wijngaarden | 0.11 |
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