John Backus : a restless inventor
John McCarthy : the uncommon logician of common sense
Alan C. Kay : a clear romantic vision
Edsger W. Dijkstra : appalling prose and the shortest path
Michael O. Rabin : the possibilities of chance
Donald E. Knuth : boundless interests, a common thread
Robert E. Tarjan : in search of good structure
Leslie Lamport : of time, space, and computation
Stephen Cook and Leonid Levin : a good solution is hard to find
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. : a delight in making things work
Burton J. Smith : racing with the speed of light
W. Daniels Hillis : the biological connection
Edward A. Feigenbaum : the power of knowledge
Douglas B. Lenat : a twenty-year bet.
