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Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Link to the story of the five computer scientists

Here is the link to the stories of John Von Neumann, Grace Hopper, Alan Turing, Edsger Dijkstra and Donald Knuth.

Posted by Prof. Hubbard at 1:35 PM
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