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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 218. Chapters: Andrew Targowski, Claude Shannon, Sergey Brin, Steve Wozniak, Lynn Conway, Vint Cerf, Jaron Lanier, Randy Pausch, Bernard Marshall Gordon, Donald Knuth, David Gewirtz, John J. Donovan, Dennis Ritchie, Charles Simonyi, Gary Kildall, John McCarthy (computer scientist), Neil J. Gunther, Jef Raskin, Vernor Vinge, Joseph F. Traub, Alan Kay, J. C. R. Licklider, Rosalind Picard, Larry Page, Carl Hewitt, George Dantzig, Marvin Minsky, Subhash Kak, Steve Omohundro, Edward Felten, Michael Stonebraker, Jim Gray (computer scientist), Robert Taylor (computer scientist), Peter J. Denning, Marissa Mayer, Stephen Wolfram, Leonard Kleinrock, Jacob Appelbaum, Uzi Vishkin, Cuthbert Hurd, Robert Metcalfe, Michael A. Padlipsky, James H. Clark, Peter Chen, Richard T. Snodgrass, Tandy Trower, Paul Dourish, Herman Goldstine, Roger Craig (Jeopardy! contestant), Gordon Bell, Elliot Koffman, Kai-Fu Lee, Cris Moore, Nichole Pinkard, Joel McCormack, Christopher Soghoian, Edwin Catmull, Richard J. Lipton, Ken Thompson, Dana Scott, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Gene Spafford, Ronald Baecker, Carl Sassenrath, Jon Postel, Seymour Ginsburg, Kerrie Holley, Anita Borg, Rodney Brooks, David A. Bader, Donald Norman, Frances E. Allen, James Gosling, Paco Nathan, Leslie Lamport, Katherine Johnson, John Gage, Edward Fredkin, Mihalis Yannakakis, Shawn Carpenter, Bill Joy, Antonin Svoboda, Robert Tappan Morris, James Z. Wang, Stephen Cook, Hal Abelson, Fred Brooks, Shwetak Patel, Janos Pach, David Webber, Nicholas Negroponte, Carver Mead, Caryn Navy, Robert Tarjan, Rajeev Motwani, Dave Cutler, Charles Bachman, Fred W. Glover, Nicholas Metropolis, John Zachman, Ira Fuchs, Mary Jane Irwin, Russell A. Kirsch, Herbert Schildt, Ashwin Ram, Gio Wiederhold, Daniel D. McCracken, Robert J. Vanderbei, Mikel King, Lee Felsenstein, Bruce Donald, Barry Boehm, Philip Greenspun, Andrew Viterbi, Patrick C. Fischer, Jeffrey Vitter, Stephen Smale, Ron Rivest, Gerald Jay Sussman, Daniel M. Lewin, Ian F. Akyildiz, Charles P. Thacker, Robert Drost, Gregory Abowd, Leah Jamieson, Arthur Samuel, Andrew B. Whinston, John D. Roush, Sundaraja Sitharama Iyengar, Max Levchin, Robert Dewar, Alexander Amini, Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls, Jr., Owen Astrachan, Daniel Weinreb, Clifford Berry, Neil Siegel, David Patterson (scientist), Tom Lane (computer scientist), Stephen Cole Kleene, John George Kemeny, David Waltz, Dick Hustvedt, Jim McKelvey, Terry Winograd, Grady Booch, Ben Shneiderman. Excerpt: Andrew (Andrzej) Stanislaw Targowski (born October 9, 1937 in Warsaw, Poland) - Polish-American computer scientist specializing in enterprise computing, societal computing, information technology impact upon civilization, information theory, wisdom theory, and civilization theory. One of the pioneers of applied information systems in Poland, the executive, university professor, scientist, civilizationist, philosopher, visionary, writer, and generalists . In Poland he is known for developing computerized social security number (PESEL, 1972-74) for 38 million citizens, the prototype of INFOSTRADA (1972-1974), and author of the first books on applied information technology in business, economy, and society. In the United States he has developed one of the first digital cities in the U.S., teleCITY of Kalamazoo, Michigan (1992-1996). He concentrated on the cognitive informatics-oriented development of the theories of enterprise-wide system, information, communication, civilization, and wisdom . Targowski was born in Warsaw, Poland. His father, Stanislaw, Adam (1893-1945) was a lawyer, diplomat, politician, and writer. He was arrested by the Germans in 1940 and sent to Auschwitz, later to Gross-Rosen and Nordhausen Dora-Mittelbau (Germany), where he worked as a slave worker at the production of V1 and V2 rockets (under Warnher von Braun's supervision ). In...
