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  2. George Fan - Wikipedia

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    George Fan (born 1978) is an American video game designer who currently works as the creative director of All Yes Good. He designed Insaniquarium (2001), Plants vs. Zombies (2009; which started the video game franchise of the same name), Octogeddon (2018), and Hardhat Wombat (2023).

  3. Plants vs. Zombies (video game) - Wikipedia

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    Plants vs. Zombies is a 2009 tower defense video game developed and published by PopCap Games. First released for Windows and Mac OS X, the game has since been ported to consoles, handhelds, and mobile devices. The player takes the role of a homeowner amid a zombie apocalypse.

  4. Plants vs. Zombies - Wikipedia

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    Plants vs. Zombies is a video game franchise developed by PopCap Games, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts (EA). The series follows the affiliates of David "Crazy Dave" Blazing as they use his plants to defend against a zombie invasion, led by Dr. Edgar George Zomboss.

  5. List of computer scientists - Wikipedia

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    A few of these people pre-date the invention of the digital computer; they are now regarded as computer scientists because their work can be seen as leading to the invention of the computer. Others are mathematicians whose work falls within what would now be called theoretical computer science, such as complexity theory and algorithmic ...

  6. List of pioneers in computer science - Wikipedia

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    Influential in establishing computer science as an independent discipline of science; coined the term software engineering. Contributed to numerical analysis , fundamentals of interpretation and translation of programming languages, systematics of program development, program transformation , and cryptology .

  7. Computer scientist - Wikipedia

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    A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. [1]Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on specific areas (such as algorithm and data structure development and design, software engineering, information theory, database theory, theoretical ...

  8. Computer science - Wikipedia

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    Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. [1] [2] [3] Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to applied disciplines (including the design and implementation of hardware and software).

  9. Andrew Yao - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (Chinese: 姚期智; pinyin: Yáo Qīzhì; born December 24, 1946) is a Chinese computer scientist and computational theorist.He is currently a professor and the dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University.