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Originally Posted by BBray_T1296
von Braun Division
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Basically the only famous pure "engineer" I can think of off the top of my head. Unfortunately, it would never happen for political reasons. Too bad, he's probably one of my biggest personal inspirations.
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Originally Posted by MooreteP
Alan Turing,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
A Turing machine is a hypothetical device that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules. Despite its simplicity, a Turing machine can be adapted to simulate the logic of any computer algorithm, and is particularly useful in explaining the functions of a CPU inside a computer.
He could be our Michael Sam? |
This is a great suggestion. He fulfills the minority requirement (as a homosexual), and was hugely influential to cryptography, mathematics, physics, and engineering.
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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
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Agreed, Oppenheimer would be a great guy to honor, although again political issues might come in the way. Personally, van Neumann was my favorite Martian though...