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I feel similar for Computer Science as a whole field. It's weird to think that many of its founding fathers were still during a significant portion of my life.
by weinzierl 2y ago
I feel similar for Computer Science as a whole field. It's weird to think that many of its founding fathers were still during a significant portion of my life.
Claude Shannon 2001
Edsger Dijkstra 2012
John McCarthy 2011
Niklaus Wirth 2024
Konrad Zuse 1995
Alonzo Church 1995
Jim Gray 2007/2012
Grace Hopper 1992
Even Alan Turing could still have been alive during my lifetime hadn't he been murdered.
Friedrich L. Baur, who died in 2015, still had an office at my university when I studied there and I often passed by, saw his name plate, and wondered if this was all real.
Luckily Donald Knuth is still around.
- neontomo 2y agoAlan Turing took his own life on purpose or by accident, he wasn't murdered
- flohofwoe 2y agoIf you read up on how the UK government treated him after the war, it was essentially murder even if they didn't outright execute him.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoNo, words mean things. If they didn't actually pull the trigger, it wasn't murder. That isn't to say it was ok to treat Turing the way they did, because it wasn't ok. But it's important to not pollute the meaning of words by misusing them for greater rhetorical impact.
- Philpax 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder
- Philpax 2y agoAnd what led him to take his own life?
- throw-qqqqq 2y agoMany believe his “chemical castration” (forced hormone therapy) caused depression first, suicide later. Some also believe he was poisoned. I assume that is where the “murder” comes from.