John Ross Frederick Duncan (born 25 March 1944) was a former Australian cricketer who played one Test match in 1971. Duncan was a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He was selected to play in the Fifth Test at Melbourne instead of participating in a different match during the 1970–71 Ashes series.
James McDonald Vicary (April 30, 1915 – November 7, 1977) was an American market researcher who started the idea of subliminal advertising with an experiment in 1957. This experiment was later found to be fake. Vicary could not repeat the results of his experiments.
Bob Coecke was born on July 23, 1968. He is a Belgian scientist who studies physics and logic. He works as Chief Scientist at a company called Quantinuum, which focuses on quantum computing.
Samson Abramsky (born 12 March 1953) is a British computer scientist who teaches computer science at University College London. He previously held a special professor position at Wolfson College, Oxford, from 2000 to 2021. Abramsky’s early research focused on domain theory and how it relates to geometric logic.
Amir Pnueli (Hebrew: אמיר פנואלי; April 22, 1941, to November 2, 2009) was an Israeli computer scientist who received the 1996 Turing Award.
Joseph Sifakis (Greek: Ιωσήφ Σηφάκης; born December 26, 1946) is a scientist who works with computers and is from Greece and France. In 2007, he was given the Turing Award, along with Edmund M. Clarke and E.
Ernest Allen Emerson II was born on June 2, 1954, and passed away on October 15, 2024. He was an American computer scientist who received the 2007 Turing Award. He taught at the University of Texas at Austin from 1981 to 2016.
Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr. (July 27, 1945 – December 22, 2020) was an American computer scientist and teacher known for creating model checking, a method used to check if hardware and software work correctly. He held the title of FORE Systems Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Randal E. Bryant (born October 27, 1952) is an American computer scientist and teacher known for his work on checking the correctness of digital hardware and software. Bryant has been a teacher at Carnegie Mellon University since 1984.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (pronounced JID-oo KRISH-nə-MOOR-tee; born May 11, 1895; died February 17, 1986) was an Indian spiritual leader, teacher, and writer. As a child, he was adopted by members of the Theosophical Society, who raised him to become the prophesied World Teacher, a role meant to help guide humanity’s spiritual growth. In 1922, he began experiencing painful, mysterious, seizure-like episodes that changed how he viewed the world.