Events
Birthdays
- Jeff Grubb [1957]
Comic book writer and game designer - Jan Sloot [1945]
Computer programmer who supposedly developed a revolutionary technique for compressing data - Kristen Nygaard [1926]
Co-developer of Object-oriented programming and Simula with Ole-Johan Dahl - Frank Kelly Freas [1922]
American science fiction and fantasy author - Martin Kamen [1913]
Co-discoverer of carbon-14 isotope - Léon Theremin [1896]
Inventor of the 'Theremin', world's first electronic musical instrument - Charles Rolls [1877]
Co-founder of the Rolls-Royce company - Giuseppe Peano [1858]
Founder of mathematical logic and set theory
Death Anniversaries
- Michael Dertouzos [2001]
Greek computer scientist known RSA encryption, X Window System and much more - Ernest Lawrence [1958]
Inventor of the cyclotron