Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and professor emeritus at Stanford University.
Birth: 1938-01-10
Nickname: Donald Ervin Knuth
Known for: The Art of Computer Programming, TeX, METAFONT, Computer Modern, Knuth–Morris–Pratt algorithm, Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm, Knuth–Plass algorithm, MMIX, Robinson–Schensted–Knuth correspondence, LR parser
Sebastian Thrun is an innovator, entrepreneur educator, and computer scientist from Germany. He is CEO of the Kitty Hawk Corporation, chairman and co-founder of Udacity. Before that, he was a Google VP and Fellow, a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and before that at Carnegie Mellon University. At Google, he founded Google X and Google's self driving car team. He is currently also an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University and at Georgia Tech.
Robert Duane Ballard is a retired United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology: maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks. He is most known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew. He leads ocean exploration on E/V Nautilus.