Category:Computer Science Eponyms

Computer science needs more eponyms, in the vein of Mordenkainen. Collect them all, and impress your friends! The vast majority of links below are stubs -- I might make a project one day of filling them all in, but I'd likely sell the result as a book.

• FIXME how do we get things like Van Wijngaarden Grammars to be categorized under W, not V?
• FIXME Tarjan has something like 20,004 algorithms, and all of them are outstanding

Explicitly not included in this list are: general logic (Peano and Presburger arithmetic), mathematical entities not primarily associated with computer science (Markov's inequality, Chapman-Kolmogorov equation), physical theories to which computer science is merely applied (Navier-Stokes equations, Taylor-Couette flow), or statistical entities not primarily associated with computer science (Ziph's Law, Parmeto efficiency). Explicitly included are: terms from computer engineering (Mead-Conway Rules, Ling adders) and mathematical entities primarily associated with computer science.

UPDATE the threshold for inclusion is now: De Morgan's Laws. If you're not more computer sciency than De Morgan's Laws, you ain't gettin' in. Dank 12:25, 3 October 2011 (CDT)