Manuel Blum
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Manuel Blum is a Venezuelan born American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".
Manuel Blum (left) with his wife Lenore Blum and their son Avrim Blum, 1973
Marvin Minsky
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Marvin Lee Minsky was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research of artificial intelligence (AI). He co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory and wrote several texts concerning AI and philosophy.
Minsky in 2008
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The Minskytron or "Three Position Display" running on the Computer History Museum's PDP-1, 2007