Whose portraits should hang in the computer science cabinet?

Miakhil Dinchenko2012-01-19 21:32:01

IT education

Miakhil Dinchenko, 2012-01-19 21:32:01

In every school in subject classes in literature, history, physics, chemistry, etc. Hanging portraits of prominent figures in the relevant field. And in the office of computer science, at best, there is a schematic model of a computer and several options for the network topology.
Whose portraits should decorate the computer science office in an ordinary Moscow school? Who should everyone know from an early age?
The question is not idle, according to the results of the survey, an informatics office will be formed in one Moscow school.

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eydemidov, 2012-01-19
@eydemidov

Alan Turing and John von Neumann were the first to come to mind for some reason. I immediately thought that they are very cool, even when I first heard.
Jobs - IMHO, in the school office of computer science - not very relevant. But on the other hand, children most likely will not be very interested in knowing what kind of “old farts” are hanging everywhere - and Jobs is cool, everyone has seen his photo at least once.
Therefore, from contemporaries, you can Jobs, Gates, Torvalds, or someone else who is more or less well known. Some of the founders of Google, for example Sergey Brin, he is more exposed. Stallman is still possible, no matter how they treat him, but he is quite powerful. Well, in other words, dilute somehow, hang people from different parties and times, not only hardcore mathematicians-physicists and not only comrades from the Forbes list.

Batonchik, 2012-01-19
@Batonchik

I think from contemporaries you can Gates and Torvalds
But hang on different walls)

Eddy_Em, 2012-01-19
@Eddy_Em

Blaise Pascal, Donald Knuth, Linus Torvalds, Kernighan & Ritchie...

brevis, 2012-01-20
@brevis

Jobs, Gates...
Zuckerberg
?

Ocelot, 2012-01-19
@Ocelot

Knut and Stroustrup were forgotten.
And in addition to portraits, you can add more themed posters .

omnimod, 2012-01-19
@omnimod

Ada Lovelace, Blaise Pascal, Gordon Moore.

vimvim, 2012-01-20
@vimvim

Putin + Medvedev.

madmaxcorp, 2012-01-19
@madmaxcorp

Steve Jobs.

KOLANICH, 2012-01-19
@KOLANICH

Of the unlisted Babbage and Dijkstra.

Chii, 2012-01-20
@Chii

They need Charles Babbage to know where computer science's legs grow from.
Well, and Richard Matthew Stallman, so that they know thanks to whom they don’t have gays with jobs instead of people who did develop information technologies, and did not parasitize on them.

Alexey, 2012-01-20
@Sterhel

You can still the good old al-Khwarizmi.

ximaera, 2012-01-20
@ximaera

Babbage, Turing , Church, Dijkstra , Shannon , McCarthy, Kernighan, Moore (which is Gordon), Hoare, Whip , Chomsky, Thompson, Wirth.
Otherwise, this is just some kind of facepalm - schoolchildren from prominent people in the field of CS know only Jobs and Zuckerberg. Films are made about them anyway, leave their popularization to Hollywood.

kamlay, 2012-01-19
@kamlay

Norbert Wiener to start

Ilya Evseev, 2012-01-19
@IlyaEvseev

Sergey Lebedev, creator of BESM.
Ken Olsen, creator of the PDP.
Steve Wallach, creator of Convex.
Jay Miner, creator of the Amiga.

simplecode, 2012-01-19
@simplecode

I was also interested recently .. maybe it will come in handy ...

Killy, 2012-01-19
@Killy

The Most Wonderful List of Candidates: Turing Award Winners .

nick5, 2012-01-19
@nick5

Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Linus Torvalds.

multik, 2012-01-20
@multik

Don't forget Winner

gendir, 2012-01-20
@gendir

Scientists do little to motivate young people to study science. It just so happened.
I agree with those who advised Jobs, Zuckerberg and others.
But they should not be replaced, but slightly diluted with a black-and-white and bearded "presidium"

parilov, 2012-01-20
@parilov

+ a separate section with portraits of computer game developers. Starting with Pajitnov, Carmack and Sid Meier.

NLab, 2012-01-20
@NLab

in my school, on the stand in the computer science office, there are pictures of students who won prizes at olympiads, for example. the school was not rich in such minds, so in 5 years there were only 3 portraits.

ComodoHacker, 2012-01-20
@ComodoHacker

Why are there so few Russian surnames? And, to my shame, I could only remember Andrei Petrovich Ershov. I searched a little, and here they are: History of computer science in Russia: scientists and their schools , thanks to the authors of the book.
From foreign countries, do not forget Sir Tim Burnes Lee. Although the question of whether it is worth "canonizing" the living is debatable.
But Steve Jobs, for all his merits, has a very indirect relation to computer science .

icc, 2012-01-20
@icc

I would choose B. Pascal, D. von Neumann, S.A. Lebedev, D. Ritchie and S. Jobs.

xanep, 2012-01-20
@xanep

Of course, those who created this very computer science:
Norbert Winner, Alan Turing, Claude Shannon, John von Neumann, Charles Babbage.

gendir, 2012-01-20
@gendir

Jobs is a classic example of a legendary entrepreneur.
Just like Stakhanov, he is not 100% such a hard worker as he is portrayed in propaganda materials.
IMHO, it is more important to show students the effectiveness of studying computer science and related disciplines than to measure the spherical affiliation of a person to I. (in a vacuum, yes)

Artm, 2012-01-20
@Artm

Do you want famous people to be offended by flies? How can...how can...

firex, 2012-01-20
@firex

Gauss, Euler, Erdős, Knut

retran, 2012-01-20
@retran

Of the unnamed:
Not ours: Alan Kay, Barbara Liskov, Marvin Minsky, Frank Rosenblatt, Bachman
Ours and migrants: Kolmogorov, Markov, Voronoi, Lotfi Zade, Arlazarov, Donskoy, Adelson-Velsky, Landis

ainu, 2012-01-20
@ainu

Bearded.

bestfriend, 2012-01-20
@bestfriend

You can’t fit everyone in a row, so the following will probably be correct:
A number of founding fathers (Pascal, Turing, Neumann, etc.)
A number of jobs-gates-Wozniaks-Torvalds
A number of game developers A number of
modern successful Zuckerbergs
Well, and something else

Nicholas, 2012-01-20
@pnick

IMHO, all of the above created computer science as a science.
The only question is - why are portraits hung in the office? To show who created or in order for children to strive to become like them and achieve success comparable to the success of the people in the portrait?

EvgeniyKirov, 2012-01-20
@EvgeniyKirov

Vinton Cerf.

inout, 2012-01-21
@inout

Lenin, Marx, Engels :)
But seriously, Dennis Ritchie.