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最伟大的计算机科学家与人工智能先驱

Computer science is the newest genius domain — less than 100 years old. The 28 minds below built the intellectual infrastructure behind everything digital.

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace

IQ 160

English mathematician and writer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.

Adragon Eastwood De Mello

Adragon Eastwood De Mello

IQ 185

Child prodigy who graduated from the University of California with a degree in computational mathematics in 1988, at age

Alan Turing

Alan Turing

IQ 185

An English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.

Arfa Karim

Arfa Karim

A Pakistani student and computer prodigy who became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in 2004.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates

IQ 160

An American business magnate, software developer, and philanthropist. The co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.

Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

An American computer scientist who is called the "father of the analysis of algorithms" and is known for the work The Ar

Edith Stern

Edith Stern

IQ 200

An American inventor and mathematician who holds over 100 US patents and was the youngest ever graduate of Florida Atlan

Elon Musk

Elon Musk

IQ 155

One in a lifetime entrepreneur, business giant, scientist & engineer. The man behind Tesla, Space-X and more.

Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper

An American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral who was one of the first programmers of the Harvard M

John von Neumann

John von Neumann

IQ 190

Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist, engineer and polymath.

Larry Page

Larry Page

An American business magnate who co-founded Google along with Sergey Brin.

Marnen Laibow-Koser

Marnen Laibow-Koser

IQ 268

Is a genius with a proclaimed IQ of 268, who started studying and playing music at the age of 3 and is a multi-instrumen

Marvin Minsky

Marvin Minsky

IQ 160

An American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with the research of artificial intelligence (AI), co-fou

Michael Grost

Michael Grost

IQ 200

An American child prodigy with an IQ of 200.

Michael Kearney

Michael Kearney

IQ 200

An American college professor and game show contestant. He is known for setting several world records related to graduat

Scott Aaronson

Scott Aaronson

An American theoretical computer scientist and David J. Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the Unive

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

IQ 160

American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.

Walter O'Brien (Obrien)

Walter O'Brien (Obrien)

IQ 197

An Irish businessman & information technologist

Willem Klein

Willem Klein

IQ 145

A Dutch mathematician of Jewish ancestry, famous for being able to carry out very complicated calculations in his head v

Yaakov Ziv

Yaakov Ziv

The father of modern files compression. Developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.

Santiago Gonzalez

Santiago Gonzalez

An American child prodigy and genius who knows over a dozen programming languages.

Marko Čalasan

Marko Čalasan

A Macedonian computer systems prodigy who became the youngest Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator at the age of ei

Nick D'Aloisio

Nick D'Aloisio

A British computer programmer and internet entrepreneur

Raghav Sood

Raghav Sood

An Indian author and programmer noted for his work in Augmented Reality and on the Android platform.

Adora Svitak

Adora Svitak

Writing stories since the age of 6

Shawn Fanning

Shawn Fanning

Co-founder and lead software engineer of Napster

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg

An American media magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist who founded the Facebook social network.

Vitalik Buterin

Vitalik Buterin

IQ 200

The Father of Ethereum

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常见问题

Who is the father of computer science?

Alan Turing is universally called the father of computer science; John von Neumann invented the stored-program architecture used in every modern computer.

Who won the first Turing Award?

Alan Perlis won the first Turing Award in 1966 for his work on compilers and programming languages.

Who is the father of AI?

John McCarthy coined the term "artificial intelligence" in 1956 and is considered a founder; Alan Turing laid the theoretical foundation earlier.

Who invented deep learning?

Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio — who won the 2018 Turing Award together — are considered the three godfathers of deep learning.

What did Ada Lovelace do?

Ada Lovelace wrote the first algorithm intended for a machine (Babbage's Analytical Engine) in 1843 — the first computer program.