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Computer-science pioneers as hostnames
A sibling set for 8 agents. Eight pioneers of computing and mathematics, one field-defining contribution each. Eight people who did the foundational work, now available for the things that run on the servers. Hopper is credited with popularizing the word debugging, and the fleet will give her reasons.
- 1TuringCodebreaker; foundational theory of computation
- 2LovelaceWrote the first published algorithm intended for a machine
- 3HopperPioneered the compiler; popularized the term 'debugging'
- 4ShannonFounder of information theory
- 5DijkstraShortest-path algorithm; structured programming advocate
- 6KnuthAuthor of The Art of Computer Programming
- 7HamiltonLed Apollo flight software at MIT
- 8BabbageDesigned the Analytical Engine