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Aimé Césaire. Aimé Fernand David Césaire ( / ɛmeɪ seɪˈzɛər /; French: [ɛme fɛʁnɑ̃ david sezɛʁ]; 26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008) was a Francophone Martinican poet, author, and politician. [2] He was "one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature" [3] and coined the word négritude in French. [4]
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William James Sidis ( / ˈsaɪdɪs /; April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944) was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic skills, for which he was active as a mathematician, linguist, historian, and author (whose works were published covertly due to never using his real name). He wrote the book The Animate and the ...
Kristoffer Wilhelm von Hassel (born 2008) is an American boy known for being the world's youngest known hacker [1] and notable for being the youngest "security researcher" listed on Microsoft 's Security Techcenter as having exposed a security vulnerability. [2] At the age of five, Hassel exposed security lapses in the Microsoft Live Xbox ...
Ainan Celeste Cawley (born 23 November 1999) is a Singaporean prodigy. [1] Cawley gave his first public lecture at the age of six, [2] [3] and at seven years and one month of age, he had passed the GCSE chemistry and studied chemistry at the tertiary level in Singapore Polytechnic [4] a year later. At the age of 9, he was able to recite pi to ...
Stuart L. Ain. Stratton Oakmont, Inc. v. Prodigy Services Co., 23 Media L. Rep. 1794 ( N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1995), [1] is a 1995 decision of the New York Supreme Court [nb 1] holding that online service providers can be liable for the speech of their users. The ruling caused controversy among early supporters of the Internet, including some lawmakers ...
Vitaly Dmitrievich Buterin ( Russian: Вита́лий Дми́триевич Буте́рин ), better known as Vitalik Buterin (Russian: Вита́лик Буте́рин; born 31 January [2] 1994), is a Canadian computer programmer and co-founder of Ethereum. Buterin became involved with cryptocurrency early in its inception, co-founding ...
Aaron Swartz was born in Highland Park, 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Chicago, [2] [23] into a Jewish family. [24] He was the eldest child of Susan and Robert Swartz and brother to Noah and Ben Swartz. [1] [25] He was an atheist. [26] His father founded the software firm Mark Williams Company.