David Cheriton (1951)
David Ross Cheriton is a Canadian computer scientist, businessman, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. He is a computer science professor at Stanford University, where he founded and leads the…
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LaVern Baker (1929)
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Georg Wüst (1890)
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