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gptkb:John_Backus
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For profound, influential, and lasting contributions to the design of practical high-level programming systems, notably through his work on FORTRAN, and for publication of formal procedures for the specification of programming languages.
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gptkb:Sir_Maurice_Wilkes
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For his work on the EDSAC and contributions to the development of computer science.
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gptkb:Robert_W._Floyd
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For having a clear influence on methodologies for the creation of efficient and reliable software, and for helping to found the following important subfields of computer science: the theory of parsing, the semantics of programming languages, automatic program verification, automatic program synthesis, and analysis of algorithms.
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gptkb:Robert_Tarjan
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for fundamental achievements in the design and analysis of algorithms and data structures
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