Michael Fourman

Michael Paul Fourman (born September 12, 1950) is a Professor of Computer Systems at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK. He served as Head of the School of Informatics from 2001 to 2009. Fourman has worked in areas such as the use of logic in computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science.

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Tom Meighan

Thomas Peter Meighan (born January 11, 1981) is an English singer. He helped start the rock band Kasabian in 1997 and was its lead singer until 2020. With Meighan, Kasabian released six studio albums and became popular, including five albums that reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and four songs that reached the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart.

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Mike Gordon

Michael Eliot Gordon was born on June 3, 1965. He is an American musician who plays the bass guitar and sings. He is best known as one of the original members of the band Phish.

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John Darlington

John Darlington is a British academic, researcher, and writer. He was a retired professor at Imperial College London. He led the London e-Science Centre and was in charge of the Functional Programming and Social Computing Sections at Imperial.

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Rod Burstall

Rodney Martineau Burstall (November 11, 1934 – February 13, 2025) was a British computer scientist. He was one of four founders of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.

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David Turner

• David M. Turner (1917–2012), served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives • David Turner (politician) (born 1944), worked as a Canadian politician and teacher • David Howell Turner (1885–1957), was a politician in Alabama

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Robert Harper (actor)

Robert Francis Harper was born on May 19, 1951, and passed away on January 23, 2020. He was an American actor who worked in plays, movies, and television shows.

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Peter Lee (computer scientist)

Peter Lee was born on November 30, 1960. He is an American computer scientist who currently serves as President and head of Microsoft Research. Before this role, he led a division focused on advancing technology at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and was chair of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Mads Tofte

Mads Tofte was born on April 20, 1959. He is a Danish computer scientist who has worked mainly on functional programming and the Standard ML language.

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Martin Odersky

Martin Odersky (born September 5, 1958) is a German computer scientist and a professor of programming methods at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He focuses on analyzing code and creating programming languages. He led the development of Scala and Generic Java (and Pizza before that).

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