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1. Douglas Hofstadter

   Author of Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid
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2. Brenda Laurel

   Author of The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, Computers as Theatre
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3. Marvin Minsky

   Author of The Society of Mind, Semantic Information Processing, The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind
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4. Steven Pinker

   Author of The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
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5. Patrick Henry Winston

   Author of Artificial Intelligence, Lisp (3rd Edition), Artificial Intelligence: An MIT Perspective, Volume 1: Expert Problem Solving, Natural Language Understanding and Intelligent Computer Coaches, Representation and Learning
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6. Thomas H. Cormen

   Author of Introduction to Algorithms
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7. Donald E. Knuth

   Author of The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms, The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 3: Sorting and Searching
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8. Donald A. Norman

   Author of Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, The Invisible Computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is so Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution, The Design of Everyday Things
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9. Herbert A. Simon

   Author of The Sciences of the Artificial
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10. Humberto R. Maturana

    Author of The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding, Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living
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11. Hubert L. Dreyfus

    Author of What Computers Still Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason, Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer
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12. Gerald M. Weinberg

    Author of Quality Software Management: Systems Thinking, Quality Software Management: First-Order Measurement, Quality Software Management: Congruent Action
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13. Janelle Shane

    Author of You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place
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14. Martin Fowler

    Author of Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
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15. Ray Kurzweil

    Author of The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
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16. Steve McConnell

    Author of Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules, After the Gold Rush: Creating a True Profession of Software Engineering
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17. Noam Chomsky

    Author of Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, Syntactic Structures, Language and Mind
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18. Roger Penrose

    Author of The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics, Shadows of the Mind
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19. Joseph Weizenbaum

    Author of Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation
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20. Gerald Gazdar

    Author of Natural Language Processing in PROLOG: An Introduction to Computational Linguistics
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21. Margaret A. Boden

    Author of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man
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22. Harold Abelson

    Author of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
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23. Adrian Akmajian

    Author of An Introduction to the Principles of Transformational Syntax, Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication
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24. Nathaniel S. Borenstein

    Author of Programming as if People Mattered
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25. George Lakoff

    Author of Metaphors We Live By, Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind
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26. Stuart J. Russell

    Author of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
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27. James O. Coplien

    Author of Pattern Languages of Program Design, Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms
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28. Alan Cooper

    Author of The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity, About Face: The Essentials of User Interface Design
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29. Derek Leebaert

    Author of The Future of Software
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30. Francisco J. Varela

    Author of The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
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31. Jakob Nielsen

    Author of Usability Engineering, Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity
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32. Steve Maguire

    Author of Debugging the Development Process: Practical Strategies for Staying Focused, Hitting Ship Dates, and Building Solid Team, Writing Solid Code: Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs
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33. Pamela McCorduck

    Author of Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence
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34. James L. McClelland

    Author of Explorations in Parallel Distributed Processing - Macintosh version: A Handbook of Models, Programs, and Exercises, Explorations in Parallel Distributed Processing [IBM version], Parallel Distributed Processing, Vol. 2: Psychological and Biological Models
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35. Andy Oram

    Author of Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think
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36. Watts S. Humphrey

    Author of Managing the Software Process, A Discipline for Software Engineering, Introduction to the Personal Software Process
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37. Frederick P. Brooks

    Author of The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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38. Jeff Hawkins

    Author of On Intelligence
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39. Brian W. Kernighan

    Author of The Practice of Programming, The C Programming Language (2nd Edition), The Elements of Programming Style
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40. David Crystal

    Author of The Cambridge encyclopedia of language, The Stories of English, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
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41. Daniel C. Dennett

    Author of Consciousness Explained, Kinds of Minds: Towards an Understanding of Consciousness, Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds
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42. Donald C. Gause

    Author of Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design, Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is
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43. Grady Booch

    Author of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications
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44. James Rumbaugh

    Author of Object-Oriented Modeling and Design
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45. Eugene Charniak

    Author of Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Programming
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46. Bruce Tognazzini

    Author of Tog on Software Design, Tog on Interface
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47. Larry L. Constantine

    Author of Constantine on Peopleware, Software for Use: A Practical Guide to the Models and Methods of Usage-Centered Design (ACM Press)
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48. Victoria Fromkin

    Author of An Introduction to Language
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49. Richard P. Gabriel

    Author of Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community
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50. Larry Wall

    Author of Programming Perl [4th edition, blue camel], Programming Perl (3rd Edition)
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