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Re:Jeff Dean takes over as Google’s AI chief by sah2ed on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @10:31AM (#16744958)
Would Dave Cutler make your list ;)?

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Re:Jeff Dean takes over as Google’s AI chief by eismcc on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @10:38AM (#16745019)
Right. He basically made AMD64 happen because he didn’t like Itanium.
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Re:Jeff Dean takes over as Google’s AI chief by jacquesm on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:33PM (#16746362)
And has a major OS to his name.
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Re:Jeff Dean takes over as Google’s AI chief by vram22 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:07PM (#16746769)
If you mean NT, then he also worked on VMS before it, right. So I remember reading in the book Inside Windows NT.
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Re:Jeff Dean takes over as Google’s AI chief by meddlepal on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:15PM (#16746173)
Yes, he should be in any top 5/10 list of most influential software engineers.
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