He was delighted to discover, when he first met Morcom's parents, that her great-uncle was Christopher Morcom, the first love of Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science.
Oliver Riordan, a professor at the University of Oxford, offers the following overview: Cellular automata were introduced by the great Hungarian-American mathematician John von Neumann (one of the founders of computer science) in the 1950s after a suggestion of Stanislaw Ulam.
This acclaimed biography of the founder of computer science, with a new preface by the author that addresses Turing's royal pardon in 2013, is the definitive account of an extraordinary mind and life.
He has been hailed as the man who shortened the second world war through his cryptanalysis at Bletchley Park; a mathematical genius who was the founder of computer science; and a pioneer in artificial intelligence.
"We work with technical founders on novel applications of computer science at the seed and Series A stages.
However, founder Daniel Kroening, who is Professor of Computer Science at University of Oxford, tells me the much bigger and more ambitious vision is that Diffblue can become smart enough to write entire computer programs on its own, just by being given a few examples of the desired outcome, such as writing bespoke software to control a smart home.
The founders are CEO Joe Hellerstein, a professor of computer science at University of California Berkley, and "Chief Experience Officer" Jeffrey Heer, a computer science professor at Stanford, and CTO Sean Kandel, who did a dissertation at Stanford on the behavior and productivity of data analysts.
While these startups are collectively doing wonders for the democratization of computer science education, the founders behind Thinkful believe that the current options lack the kind of support that students need to learn effectively.
His fellow co-founder Jure Leskovec was an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford with a PhD in machine learning from Carnegie Mellon.
Meanwhile, Serafim Batzoglou, professor of computer science at Stanford and founder of Serafim's Lab, is another notable researching working in the area of computational genomics.
David Dill, a professor of computer science at Stanford University and the founder of the Verified Voting Foundation, which has the aim of "safeguarding elections in the digital age," was more than happy to wave me off to my polling place.
