Out of their minds : the lives and discoveries of 15 great computer scientists | WorldCat.org

John Backus : a restless inventor

John McCarthy : the uncommon logician of common sense

Alan C. Kay : a clear romantic vision

Edsger W. Dijkstra : appalling prose and the shortest path

Michael O. Rabin : the possibilities of chance

Donald E. Knuth : boundless interests, a common thread

Robert E. Tarjan : in search of good structure

Leslie Lamport : of time, space, and computation

Stephen Cook and Leonid Levin : a good solution is hard to find

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. : a delight in making things work

Burton J. Smith : racing with the speed of light

W. Daniels Hillis : the biological connection

Edward A. Feigenbaum : the power of knowledge

Douglas B. Lenat : a twenty-year bet