“THEY CHANGED THE WORLD” A

PRESENTATION ABOUT OUTSTANDING

PERSONALITIES WHO HAVE MADE A
SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTING.
 4 GREATEST PROGRAMMERS OF ALL TIME
Computers are very complex machines, but humans operate them without any technical
skill. They just interact with the GUI and the entire background process is usually hidden.
Well, every element you see on your desktop is created by some ingenious developer. And
today we highlight these brilliant minds from all over the world.

Programmers are the new rock stars

these days. They change the world
with every new line of successfully
written code. Few world-class
programmers have influenced people to
become better programmers.
1. ALAN MATHISON TURING
Alan Turing is a scientist, mathematician, cryptanalyst and logician. He is called
the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. What he did:
During World War II, he developed many methods of breaking German ciphers.
Turing built an electromechanical machine that could find the settings of the
Enigma machine. He formalized the concepts of computation and algorithms using
a Turing machine, a machine that can be adapted to simulate the logic of any
algorithm. Major Achievements: He was awarded the Smith Prize, Officer of the
Order of the British Empire and Fellow of the Royal Society.

Since 1966, the Association for Computing Machinery has awarded the
Turing Prize annually for contributions to the computing community.
2. DENNIS RICHIE§
Dennis Ritchie was a revolutionary computer scientist who played a key role in the
development of the C programming language and the Unix operating system. He
worked for Lucent Technologies & Bell Labs and completed his Ph.D. thesis on
Program Structure and Computational Complexity. However, he never officially
received his doctorate. What he did: He developed the "C" programming language on
which many of the machine languages ​and technologies currently in use are based,
including your PS4 / Xbox. Richie created a multiuser operating system called Unix.
He is also known for developing ALTRAN, B, BCPL and Multics.

Major Achievements: Richie has received the Turing

Prize, the IEEE Hamming Medal, the Computer Pioneer
Prize, the Computer History Museum Fellow, and the
Harold Pender Prize.
3. BILL GATES
A person who needs no introduction. The richest programmer in the world, whose
software is used by the whole world. What he did: During his first 5 years at Microsoft,
Gates personally monitored every line of code the company submitted, often correcting
what he believed to be wrong or wrong. In the early days, he and Paul Allen wrote a
complete BASIC interpreter in assembly language for a computer they didn't even have
access to, and which only had 4 KB of memory. They wrote this on a PDP-10 running on
an Intel 8080 emulator.

Major Achievements: He was awarded the National Medal of

Technology and Innovation, Distinguished Fellow of the
British Computer Society and the Bauer Award for Business
Leadership.
4. GUIDO VAN ROSSUM
Guido van Rossum is a programmer known as the author of the Python programming
language. What he did: In the early days he wrote the glob () routine for BSD Unix and
worked on the ABC programming language. He developed Python while working at
Google and continues to oversee the Python development process, making critical
decisions where needed.

Achievements: Rossum received

the 2001 NLUUG Award for the
Advancement of Free Software
for his work on Python.
Bibliography:
1. «Новая наука» («new-science.ru») - https://new-science.ru