My heroes on the computing world: Claude Shannon As important, or more important, than Alan Turing. we owe digital electronics to him!!

My heroes on the computing world: Claude Shannon As important, or more important, than Alan Turing. we owe digital electronics to him!! John McCarthy Invented (or perhaps "discovered") Lisp Seymour Papert invented LOGO and thus brought Lisp to little kids Alan Kay invented Smalltalk-72 to bring OOP to little kids. Ivan Sutherland Computer graphics pioneer Douglas Engelbart mouse, hypertext, GUI... see "the mother of all demos." Hugely influential. and... Everybody at Xerox PARC in the 70s and 80s.