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package com.hazelcast.instance.impl;

import java.util.Arrays;

import java.util.Collections;

/**

* Java port of the Moby Project random name generator (https://github.com/moby/moby).

*/

public final class MobyNames {

public static final String MOBY_NAMING_PREFIX = "hazelcast.internal.member.naming.moby.prefix";

private static final String NAME_FORMAT = "%s_%s";

private static final String[] LEFT = {"admiring", "adoring", "affectionate", "agitated", "amazing", "angry", "awesome",

"blissful", "boring", "brave", "charming", "clever", "cool", "compassionate",

"competent", "condescending", "confident", "cranky", "crazy", "dazzling", "determined",

"distracted", "dreamy", "eager", "ecstatic", "elastic", "elated", "elegant", "eloquent",

"epic", "fervent", "festive", "flamboyant", "focused", "friendly", "frosty", "gallant",

"gifted", "goofy", "gracious", "happy", "hardcore", "heuristic", "hopeful", "hungry",

"infallible", "inspiring", "jolly", "jovial", "keen", "kind", "laughing", "loving",

"lucid", "magical", "mystifying", "modest", "musing", "naughty", "nervous", "nifty",

"nostalgic", "objective", "optimistic", "peaceful", "pedantic", "pensive", "practical",

"priceless", "quirky", "quizzical", "recursing", "relaxed", "reverent", "romantic",

"sad", "serene", "sharp", "silly", "sleepy", "stoic", "stupefied", "suspicious",

"sweet", "tender", "thirsty", "trusting", "unruffled", "upbeat", "vibrant", "vigilant",

"vigorous", "wizardly", "wonderful", "xenodochial", "youthful", "zealous", "zen"};

// Docker, starting from 0.7.x, generates names from notable scientists and hackers.

// Please, for any amazing man that you add to the list, consider adding an equally amazing woman to it, and vice versa.

private static final String[] RIGHT = {

// Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Ḥarrānī al-Battānī was a founding father of astronomy.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%E1%B8%A5ammad_ibn_J%C4%81bir_al-%E1%B8%A4arr%C4%81n%C4%AB_al-Batt%C4%81n%C4%AB

"albattani",

// Frances E. Allen, became the first female IBM Fellow in 1989. In 2006, she became the first female recipient of

// the ACM's Turing Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_E._Allen

"allen",

// June Almeida - Scottish virologist who took the first pictures of the rubella virus

// - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Almeida

"almeida",

// Kathleen Antonelli, American computer programmer and one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC

// - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Antonelli

"antonelli",

// Maria Gaetana Agnesi - Italian mathematician, philosopher, theologian and humanitarian. She was the first woman

// to write a mathematics handbook and the first woman appointed as a Mathematics Professor at a University.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Gaetana_Agnesi

"agnesi",

// Archimedes was a physicist, engineer and mathematician who invented too many things to list them here.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes

"archimedes",

// Maria Ardinghelli - Italian translator, mathematician and physicist

// - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ardinghelli

"ardinghelli",

// Aryabhata - Ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer during 476-550 CE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryabhata

"aryabhata",

// Wanda Austin - Wanda Austin is the President and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, a leading architect for the

// US security space programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Austin

"austin",

// Charles Babbage invented the concept of a programmable computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage.

"babbage",

// Stefan Banach - Polish mathematician, was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Banach

"banach",

// Buckaroo Banzai and his mentor Dr. Hikita perfectd the "oscillation overthruster", a device that allows one

// to pass through solid matter.

// - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Buckaroo_Banzai_Across_the_8th_Dimension

"banzai",

// John Bardeen co-invented the transistor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardeen

"bardeen",

// Jean Bartik, born Betty Jean Jennings, was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bartik

"bartik",

// Laura Bassi, the world's first female professor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bassi

"bassi",

// Hugh Beaver, British engineer, founder of the Guinness Book of World Records

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Beaver

"beaver",

// Alexander Graham Bell - an eminent Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with

// inventing the first practical telephone - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell

"bell",

// Karl Friedrich Benz - a German automobile engineer. Inventor of the first practical motorcar.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Benz

"benz",

// Homi J Bhabha - was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata

// Institute of Fundamental Research. Colloquially known as "father of Indian nuclear programme"

// - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_J._Bhabha

"bhabha",

// Bhaskara II - Ancient Indian mathematician-astronomer whose work on calculus predates Newton and Leibniz

// by over half a millennium - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bh%C4%81skara_II#Calculus

"bhaskara",

// Sue Black - British computer scientist and campaigner. She has been instrumental in saving

// Bletchley Park, the site of World War II codebreaking -

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Black_(computer_scientist)

"black",

// Elizabeth Helen Blackburn - Australian-American Nobel laureate; best known for co-discovering telomerase.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackburn

"blackburn",

// Elizabeth Blackwell - American doctor and first American woman to receive a medical degree

// - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blackwell

"blackwell",

// Niels Bohr is the father of quantum theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels_Bohr.

"bohr",

// Kathleen Booth, she's credited with writing the first assembly language.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Booth

"booth",

// Anita Borg - Anita Borg was the founding director of the Institute for Women and Technology (IWT).

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg

"borg",

// Satyendra Nath Bose - He provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the

// Bose–Einstein condensate. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose

"bose",

// Katherine Louise Bouman is an imaging scientist and Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the

// California Institute of Technology. She researches computational methods for imaging, and developed an

// algorithm that made possible the picture first visualization of a black hole using the

// Event Horizon Telescope. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Bouman

"bouman",

// Evelyn Boyd Granville - She was one of the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics; she

// earned it in 1949 from Yale University. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Boyd_Granville

"boyd",

// Brahmagupta - Ancient Indian mathematician during 598-670 CE who gave rules to compute with zero

// - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmagupta#Zero

"brahmagupta",

// Walter Houser Brattain co-invented the transistor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Houser_Brattain

"brattain",

// Emmett Brown invented time travel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Brown (thanks Brian Goff)

"brown",

// Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell - discoverer of pulsars while a graduate student, "one of the most significant

// scientific achievements of the 20th Century". - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jocelyn_Bell_Burnell

"burnell",

// Linda Brown Buck - American biologist and Nobel laureate best known for her genetic and molecular analyses of

// the mechanisms of smell. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_B._Buck

"buck",

// Annie Jump Cannon - pioneering female astronomer who classified hundreds of thousands of stars and created the

// system we use to understand stars today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Jump_Cannon

"cannon",

// Rachel Carson - American marine biologist and conservationist, her book Silent Spring and other writings are

// credited with advancing the global environmental movement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Carson

"carson",

// Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright - British mathematician who was one of the first to study what is now known as chaos

// theory. Also known for Cartwright's theorem which finds applications in signal processing.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cartwright

"cartwright",

// George Washington Carver - American agricultural scientist and inventor. He was the most prominent black

// scientist of the early 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver

"carver",

// Vinton Gray Cerf - American Internet pioneer, recognised as one of "the fathers of the Internet". With

// Robert Elliot Kahn, he designed TCP and IP, the primary data communication protocols of the Internet and

// other computer networks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf

"cerf",

// Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - Astrophysicist known for his mathematical theory on different stages and evolution

// in structures of the stars. He has won nobel prize for physics

// - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar

"chandrasekhar",

// Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin was a Russian and Soviet physicist, mathematician, and mechanical engineer.

// He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation and for a hypothetical substance

// in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Chaplygin

"chaplygin",

// Émilie du Châtelet - French natural philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and author during the early 1730s,

// known for her translation of and commentary on Isaac Newton's book Principia containing basic laws of physics.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89milie_du_Ch%C3%A2telet

"chatelet",

// Asima Chatterjee was an Indian organic chemist noted for her research on vinca alkaloids, development of drugs

// for treatment of epilepsy and malaria - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asima_Chatterjee

"chatterjee",

// Pafnuty Chebyshev - Russian mathematician. He is known fo his works on probability, statistics, mechanics,

// analytical geometry and number theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pafnuty_Chebyshev

"chebyshev",

// Clifford Christopher Cocks - British mathematician and cryptographer employed by the GCHQ. Invented in 1973

// an equivalent of what is now known as the RSA public-key cryptosystem (Rivest, Shamir and Adleman first

// publicly described RSA in 1978). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Cocks

"clifford",

// Bram Cohen - American computer programmer and author of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen

"cohen",

// David Lee Chaum - American computer scientist and cryptographer. Known for his seminal contributions in the

// field of anonymous communication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum

"chaum",

// Joan Clarke - Bletchley Park code breaker during the Second World War who pioneered techniques that remained

// top secret for decades. Also an accomplished numismatist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Clarke

"clarke",

// Jane Colden - American botanist widely considered the first female American botanist

// - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Colden

"colden",

// Gerty Theresa Cori - American biochemist who became the third woman—and first American woman—to win a Nobel

// Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Cori was born

// in Prague. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerty_Cori

"cori",

// Seymour Roger Cray was an American electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of

// computers that were the fastest in the world for decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Cray

"cray",

// This entry reflects a husband and wife team who worked together:

// Joan Curran was a Welsh scientist who developed radar and invented chaff, a radar countermeasure.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Curran

// Samuel Curran was an Irish physicist who worked alongside his wife during WWII and invented the proximity fuse.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Curran

"curran",

// Marie Curie discovered radioactivity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie.

"curie",

// Charles Darwin established the principles of natural evolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin.

"darwin",

// Leonardo Da Vinci invented too many things to list here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci.

"davinci",

// A. K. (Alexander Keewatin) Dewdney, Canadian mathematician, computer scientist, author and filmmaker. Contributor

// to Scientific American's "Computer Recreations" from 1984 to 1991. Author of Core War (program), The Planiverse,

// The Armchair Universe, The Magic Machine, The New Turing Omnibus, and more.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Dewdney

"dewdney",

// Satish Dhawan - Indian mathematician and aerospace engineer, known for leading the successful and indigenous

// development of the Indian space programme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satish_Dhawan

"dhawan",

// Bailey Whitfield Diffie - American cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitfield_Diffie

"diffie",

// Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist and mathematical scientist.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra.

"dijkstra",

// Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac - English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early

// development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dirac

"dirac",

// Agnes Meyer Driscoll - American cryptanalyst during World Wars I and II who successfully cryptanalysed a

// number of Japanese ciphers. She was also the co-developer of one of the cipher machines of the US Navy,

// the CM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Meyer_Driscoll

"driscoll",

// Donna Dubinsky - played an integral role in the development of personal digital assistants (PDAs) serving

// as CEO of Palm, Inc. and co-founding Handspring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Dubinsky

"dubinsky",

// Annie Easley - She was a leading member of the team which developed software for the Centaur rocket stage

// and one of the first African-Americans in her field. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Easley

"easley",

// Thomas Alva Edison, prolific inventor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

"edison",

// Albert Einstein invented the general theory of relativity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

"einstein",

// Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan is a Kazakhstani graduate student, computer programmer, internet pirate in

// hiding, and the creator of the site Sci-Hub. Nature has listed her in 2016 in the top ten people

// that mattered in science, and Ars Technica has compared her to Aaron Swartz. -

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan

"elbakyan",

// Taher A. ElGamal - Egyptian cryptographer best known for the ElGamal discrete log cryptosystem and the

// ElGamal digital signature scheme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taher_Elgamal

"elgamal",

// Gertrude Elion - American biochemist, pharmacologist and the 1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine

// - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Elion

"elion",

// James Henry Ellis - British engineer and cryptographer employed by the GCHQ. Best known for conceiving

// for the first time, the idea of public-key cryptography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Ellis

"ellis",

// Douglas Engelbart gave the mother of all demos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart

"engelbart",

// Euclid invented geometry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid

"euclid",

// Leonhard Euler invented large parts of modern mathematics. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler

"euler",

// Michael Faraday - British scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday

"faraday",

// Horst Feistel - German-born American cryptographer who was one of the earliest non-government researchers to

// study the design and theory of block ciphers. Co-developer of DES and Lucifer. Feistel networks, a symmetric

// structure used in the construction of block ciphers are named after him.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Feistel

"feistel",

// Pierre de Fermat pioneered several aspects of modern mathematics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Fermat

"fermat",

// Enrico Fermi invented the first nuclear reactor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi.

"fermi",

// Richard Feynman was a key contributor to quantum mechanics and particle physics.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

"feynman",

// Benjamin Franklin is famous for his experiments in electricity and the invention of the lightning rod.

"franklin",

// Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin - Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, best known as the first human to journey into

// outer space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin

"gagarin",

// Galileo was a founding father of modern astronomy, and faced politics and obscurantism to establish scientific

// truth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

"galileo",

// Évariste Galois - French mathematician whose work laid the foundations of Galois theory and group theory, two

// major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections, all while still in his late teens.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89variste_Galois

"galois",

// Kadambini Ganguly - Indian physician, known for being the first South Asian female physician, trained in western

// medicine, to graduate in South Asia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadambini_Ganguly

"ganguly",

// William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, philanthropist, investor, computer programmer,

// and inventor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

"gates",

// Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss - German mathematician who made significant contributions to many fields, including

// number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, mechanics,

// electrostatics, magnetic fields, astronomy, matrix theory, and optics. https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss

"gauss",

// Marie-Sophie Germain - French mathematician, physicist and philosopher. Known for her work on elasticity theory,

// number theory and philosophy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain

"germain",

// Adele Goldberg, was one of the designers and developers of the Smalltalk language. https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Adele_Goldberg_(computer_scientist)

"goldberg",

// Adele Goldstine, born Adele Katz, wrote the complete technical description for the first electronic digital

// computer, ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Goldstine

"goldstine",

// Shafi Goldwasser is a computer scientist known for creating theoretical foundations of modern cryptography.

// Winner of 2012 ACM Turing Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafi_Goldwasser

"goldwasser",

// James Golick, all around gangster.

"golick",

// Jane Goodall - British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist who is considered to be the world's

// foremost expert on chimpanzees - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall

"goodall",

// Stephen Jay Gould was was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.

// He is most famous for the theory of punctuated equilibrium -

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jay_Gould

"gould",

// Carolyn Widney Greider - American molecular biologist and joint winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or

// Medicine for the discovery of telomerase. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_W._Greider

"greider",

// Alexander Grothendieck - German-born French mathematician who became a leading figure in the creation of modern

// algebraic geometry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck

"grothendieck",

// Lois Haibt - American computer scientist, part of the team at IBM that developed FORTRAN - https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Lois_Haibt

"haibt",

// Margaret Hamilton - Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which

// developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist)

"hamilton",

// Caroline Harriet Haslett - English electrical engineer, electricity industry administrator and champion of

// women's rights. Co-author of British Standard 1363 that specifies AC power plugs and sockets used across the

// United Kingdom (which is widely considered as one of the safest designs). https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Caroline_Haslett

"haslett",

// Stephen Hawking pioneered the field of cosmology by combining general relativity and quantum mechanics.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking

"hawking",

// Martin Edward Hellman - American cryptologist, best known for his invention of public-key cryptography in

// co-operation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Hellman

"hellman",

// Werner Heisenberg was a founding father of quantum mechanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg

"heisenberg",

// Grete Hermann was a German philosopher noted for her philosophical work on the foundations of quantum mechanics.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grete_Hermann

"hermann",

// Caroline Lucretia Herschel - German astronomer and discoverer of several comets. https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Caroline_Herschel

"herschel",

// Heinrich Rudolf Hertz - German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic

// waves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hertz

"hertz",

// Jaroslav Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and

// recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959. His main field of work was polarography. https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Jaroslav_Heyrovsk%C3%BD

"heyrovsky",

// Dorothy Hodgkin was a British biochemist, credited with the development of protein crystallography. She was

// awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Hodgkin

"hodgkin",

// Douglas R. Hofstadter is an American professor of cognitive science and author of the Pulitzer Prize and

// American Book Award-winning work Goedel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid in 1979. A mind-bending work

// which coined Hofstadter's Law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account

// Hofstadter's Law." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter

"hofstadter",

// Erna Schneider Hoover revolutionized modern communication by inventing a computerized telephone switching method

// . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erna_Schneider_Hoover

"hoover",

// Grace Hopper developed the first compiler for a computer programming language and is credited with popularizing

// the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

"hopper",

// Frances Hugle, she was an American scientist, engineer, and inventor who contributed to the understanding of

// semiconductors, integrated circuitry, and the unique electrical principles of microscopic materials. https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Hugle

"hugle",

// Hypatia - Greek Alexandrine Neoplatonist philosopher in Egypt who was one of the earliest mothers of mathematics

// - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia

"hypatia",

// Teruko Ishizaka - Japanese scientist and immunologist who co-discovered the antibody class Immunoglobulin E.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruko_Ishizaka

"ishizaka",

// Mary Jackson, American mathematician and aerospace engineer who earned the highest title within NASA's

// engineering department - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jackson_(engineer)

"jackson",

// Yeong-Sil Jang was a Korean scientist and astronomer during the Joseon Dynasty; he invented the first metal

// printing press and water gauge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jang_Yeong-sil

"jang",

// Mae Carol Jemison - is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first

// black woman to travel in space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the

// Space Shuttle Endeavour - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_Jemison

"jemison",

// Betty Jennings - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bartik

"jennings",

// Mary Lou Jepsen, was the founder and chief technology officer of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), and the founder of

// Pixel Qi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Jepsen

"jepsen",

// Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson - American physicist and mathematician contributed to the NASA. https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson

"johnson",

// Irène Joliot-Curie - French scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935. Daughter of Marie

// and Pierre Curie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir%C3%A8ne_Joliot-Curie

"joliot",

// Karen Spärck Jones came up with the concept of inverse document frequency, which is used in most search engines

// today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Sp%C3%A4rck_Jones

"jones",

// A. P. J. Abdul Kalam - is an Indian scientist aka Missile Man of India for his work on the development of

// ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._P._J._Abdul_Kalam

"kalam",

// Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa (14 February 1928 – 14 August 2012) was a Russian physicist and demographer.

// He was best known as host of the popular and long-running Russian scientific TV show, Evident, but Incredible.

// His father was the Nobel laureate Soviet-era physicist Pyotr Kapitsa, and his brother was the geographer

// and Antarctic explorer Andrey Kapitsa. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Kapitsa

"kapitsa",

// Susan Kare, created the icons and many of the interface elements for the original Apple Macintosh in the 1980s,

// and was an original employee of NeXT, working as the Creative Director. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Kare

"kare",

// Mstislav Keldysh - a Soviet scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics, academician of the USSR Academy

// of Sciences (1946), President of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1961–1975), three times Hero of Socialist Labor

// (1956, 1961, 1971), fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1968). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mstislav_Keldysh

"keldysh",

// Mary Kenneth Keller, Sister Mary Kenneth Keller became the first American woman to earn a PhD in Computer

// Science in 1965. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kenneth_Keller

"keller",

// Johannes Kepler, German astronomer known for his three laws of planetary motion - https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler

"kepler",

// Omar Khayyam - Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet. Known for his work on the classification and solution

// of cubic equations, for his contribution to the understanding of Euclid's fifth postulate and for computing the

// length of a year very accurately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Khayyam

"khayyam",

// Har Gobind Khorana - Indian-American biochemist who shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology - https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/Har_Gobind_Khorana

"khorana",

// Jack Kilby invented silicone integrated circuits and gave Silicon Valley its name. - https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Jack_Kilby

"kilby",

// Maria Kirch - German astronomer and first woman to discover a comet - https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Maria_Margarethe_Kirch

"kirch",

// Donald Knuth - American computer scientist, author of "The Art of Computer Programming" and creator of the TeX

// typesetting system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

"knuth",

// Sophie Kowalevski - Russian mathematician responsible for important original contributions to analysis,

// differential equations and mechanics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Kovalevskaya

"kowalevski",

// Marie-Jeanne de Lalande - French astronomer, mathematician and cataloguer of stars - https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Marie-Jeanne_de_Lalande

"lalande",

// Hedy Lamarr - Actress and inventor. The principles of her work are now incorporated into modern Wi-Fi, CDMA and

// Bluetooth technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

"lamarr",

// Leslie B. Lamport - American computer scientist. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed

// systems and was the winner of the 2013 Turing Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport

"lamport",

// Mary Leakey - British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull - https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Leakey

"leakey",

// Henrietta Swan Leavitt - she was an American astronomer who discovered the relation between the luminosity and

// the period of Cepheid variable stars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Swan_Leavitt

"leavitt",

// Esther Miriam Zimmer Lederberg - American microbiologist and a pioneer of bacterial genetics. https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Lederberg

"lederberg",

// Inge Lehmann - Danish seismologist and geophysicist. Known for discovering in 1936 that the Earth has a solid

// inner core inside a molten outer core. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge_Lehmann

"lehmann",

// Daniel Lewin - Mathematician, Akamai co-founder, soldier, 9/11 victim-- Developed optimization techniques for

// routing traffic on the internet. Died attempting to stop the 9-11 hijackers. https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Daniel_Lewin

"lewin",

// Ruth Lichterman - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Teitelbaum

"lichterman",

// Barbara Liskov - co-developed the Liskov substitution principle. Liskov was also the winner of the Turing Prize

// in 2008. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov

"liskov",

// Ada Lovelace invented the first algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace (thanks James Turnbull)

"lovelace",

// Auguste and Louis Lumière - the first filmmakers in history - https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Auguste_and_Louis_Lumi%C3%A8re

"lumiere",

// Mahavira - Ancient Indian mathematician during 9th century AD who discovered basic algebraic identities -

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah%C4%81v%C4%ABra_(mathematician)

"mahavira",

// Lynn Margulis (b. Lynn Petra Alexander) - an American evolutionary theorist and biologist, science author,

// educator, and popularizer, and was the primary modern proponent for the significance of symbiosis in evolution.

// - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Margulis

"margulis",

// Yukihiro Matsumoto - Japanese computer scientist and software programmer best known as the chief designer of the

// Ruby programming language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto

"matsumoto",

// James Clerk Maxwell - Scottish physicist, best known for his formulation of electromagnetic theory. https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell

"maxwell",

// Maria Mayer - American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for proposing the nuclear shell model

// of the atomic nucleus - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Mayer

"mayer",

// John McCarthy invented LISP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCarthy_(computer_scientist)

"mccarthy",

// Barbara McClintock - a distinguished American cytogeneticist, 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for

// discovering transposons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock

"mcclintock",

// Anne Laura Dorinthea McLaren - British developmental biologist whose work helped lead to human in-vitro

// fertilisation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McLaren

"mclaren",

// Malcolm McLean invented the modern shipping container: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcom_McLean

"mclean",

// Kay McNulty - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_Antonelli

"mcnulty",

// Gregor Johann Mendel - Czech scientist and founder of genetics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel

"mendel",

// Dmitri Mendeleev - a chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the

// periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also

// to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev

"mendeleev",

// Lise Meitner - Austrian/Swedish physicist who was involved in the discovery of nuclear fission. The element

// meitnerium is named after her - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner

"meitner",

// Carla Meninsky, was the game designer and programmer for Atari 2600 games Dodge 'Em and Warlords. https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Meninsky

"meninsky",

// Ralph C. Merkle - American computer scientist, known for devising Merkle's puzzles - one of the very first

// schemes for public-key cryptography. Also, inventor of Merkle trees and co-inventor of the Merkle-Damgård

// construction for building collision-resistant cryptographic hash functions and the Merkle-Hellman knapsack

// cryptosystem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Merkle

"merkle",

// Johanna Mestorf - German prehistoric archaeologist and first female museum director in Germany - https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_Mestorf

"mestorf",

// Marvin Minsky - Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, co-founder of the MIT's AI Lab, won the Turing Award in 1969

// . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky

"minsky",

// Maryam Mirzakhani - an Iranian mathematician and the first woman to win the Fields Medal. https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani

"mirzakhani",

// Gordon Earle Moore - American engineer, Silicon Valley founding father, author of Moore's law. https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moore

"moore",

// Samuel Morse - contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs and

// was a co-developer of the Morse code - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse

"morse",

// Ian Murdock - founder of the Debian project - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murdock

"murdock",

// May-Britt Moser - Nobel prize winner neuroscientist who contributed to the discovery of grid cells in the brain.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May-Britt_Moser

"moser",

// John Napier of Merchiston - Scottish landowner known as an astronomer, mathematician and physicist. Best known

// for his discovery of logarithms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Napier

"napier",

// John Forbes Nash, Jr. - American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential

// geometry, and the study of partial differential equations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash_Jr.

"nash",

// John von Neumann - todays computer architectures are based on the von Neumann architecture. https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture

"neumann",

// Isaac Newton invented classic mechanics and modern optics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

"newton",

// Florence Nightingale, more prominently known as a nurse, was also the first female member of the Royal

// Statistical Society and a pioneer in statistical graphics https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale#Statistics_and_sanitary_reform

"nightingale",

// Alfred Nobel - a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer (inventor of dynamite) -

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel

"nobel",

// Emmy Noether, German mathematician. Noether's Theorem is named after her. https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Emmy_Noether

"noether",

// Poppy Northcutt. Poppy Northcutt was the first woman to work as part of NASA’s Mission Control. http://www

// .businessinsider.com/poppy-northcutt-helped-apollo-astronauts-2014-12?op=1

"northcutt",

// Robert Noyce invented silicone integrated circuits and gave Silicon Valley its name. - https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Robert_Noyce

"noyce",

// Panini - Ancient Indian linguist and grammarian from 4th century CE who worked on the world's first formal

// system - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81%E1%B9%87ini#Comparison_with_modern_formal_systems

"panini",

// Ambroise Pare invented modern surgery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambroise_Par%C3%A9

"pare",

// Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and inventor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal

"pascal",

// Louis Pasteur discovered vaccination, fermentation and pasteurization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur.

"pasteur",

// Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was an astronomer and astrophysicist who, in 1925, proposed in her Ph.D. thesis an

// explanation for the composition of stars in terms of the relative abundances of hydrogen and helium. https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin

"payne",

// Radia Perlman is a software designer and network engineer and most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree

// protocol (STP). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman

"perlman",

// Rob Pike was a key contributor to Unix, Plan 9, the X graphic system, utf-8, and the Go programming language.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike

"pike",

// Henri Poincaré made fundamental contributions in several fields of mathematics. https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Henri_Poincar%C3%A9

"poincare",

// Laura Poitras is a director and producer whose work, made possible by open source crypto tools, advances the

// causes of truth and freedom of information by reporting disclosures by whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Poitras

"poitras",

// Tat’yana Avenirovna Proskuriakova (January 23 [O.S. January 10] 1909 – August 30, 1985) was a

// Russian-American Mayanist scholar and archaeologist who contributed significantly to the deciphering

// of Maya hieroglyphs, the writing system of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica

// . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatiana_Proskouriakoff

"proskuriakova",

// Claudius Ptolemy - a Greco-Egyptian writer of Alexandria, known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer,

// astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy

"ptolemy",

// C. V. Raman - Indian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1930 for proposing the Raman effect. - https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/C._V._Raman

"raman",

// Srinivasa Ramanujan - Indian mathematician and autodidact who made extraordinary contributions to mathematical

// analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions. - https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

"ramanujan",

// Sally Kristen Ride was an American physicist and astronaut. She was the first American woman in space, and the

// youngest American astronaut. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ride

"ride",

// Rita Levi-Montalcini - Won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the

// discovery of nerve growth factor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Levi-Montalcini)

"montalcini",

// Dennis Ritchie - co-creator of UNIX and the C programming language. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie

"ritchie",

// Ida Rhodes - American pioneer in computer programming, designed the first computer used for Social Security.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Rhodes

"rhodes",

// Julia Hall Bowman Robinson - American mathematician renowned for her contributions to the fields of

// computability theory and computational complexity theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Robinson

"robinson",

// Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen - German physicist who was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901 for the

// discovery of X-rays (Röntgen rays). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen

"roentgen",

// Rosalind Franklin - British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer whose research was critical to the

// understanding of DNA - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin

"rosalind",

// Vera Rubin - American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Vera_Rubin

"rubin",

// Meghnad Saha - Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha equation, used to describe

// chemical and physical conditions in stars - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meghnad_Saha

"saha",

// Jean E. Sammet developed FORMAC, the first widely used computer language for symbolic manipulation of

// mathematical formulas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_E._Sammet

"sammet",

// Mildred Sanderson - American mathematician best known for Sanderson's theorem concerning modular invariants.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Sanderson

"sanderson",

// Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the unknown person or group of people who developed bitcoin,

// authored the bitcoin white paper, and created and deployed bitcoin's original reference implementation.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto

"satoshi",

// Adi Shamir - Israeli cryptographer whose numerous inventions and contributions to cryptography include

// the Ferge Fiat Shamir identification scheme, the Rivest Shamir Adleman (RSA) public-key cryptosystem,

// the Shamir's secret sharing scheme, the breaking of the Merkle-Hellman cryptosystem, the TWINKLE and

// TWIRL factoring devices and the discovery of differential cryptanalysis (with Eli Biham).

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shamir

"shamir",

// Claude Shannon - The father of information theory and founder of digital circuit design theory.

// (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon)

"shannon",

// Carol Shaw - Originally an Atari employee, Carol Shaw is said to be the first female video game designer.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Shaw_(video_game_designer)

"shaw",

// Dame Stephanie "Steve" Shirley - Founded a software company in 1962 employing women working from home.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Shirley

"shirley",

// William Shockley co-invented the transistor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley

"shockley",

// Lina Solomonovna Stern (or Shtern; 26 August 1878 – 7 March 1968) was a Soviet biochemist, physiologist and

// humanist whose medical discoveries saved thousands of lives at the fronts of World

// War II. She is best known for her pioneering work on blood–brain barrier, which she described as

// hemato-encephalic barrier in 1921. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Stern

"shtern",

// Françoise Barré-Sinoussi - French virologist and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine; her work was

// fundamental in identifying HIV as the cause of AIDS. https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Barr%C3%A9-Sinoussi

"sinoussi",

// Betty Snyder - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Holberton

"snyder",

// Cynthia Solomon - Pioneer in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science and educational computing.

// Known for creation of Logo, an educational programming language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Solomon

"solomon",

// Frances Spence - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC - https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Spence

"spence",

// Ivan Edward Sutherland - American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, widely regarded as the father of

// computer graphics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sutherland

"sutherland",

// Richard Matthew Stallman - the founder of the Free Software movement, the GNU project, the Free Software

// Foundation, and the League for Programming Freedom. He also invented the concept of copyleft to protect the

// ideals of this movement, and enshrined this concept in the widely-used GPL (General Public License) for software

// . https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

"stallman",

// Michael Stonebraker is a database research pioneer and architect of Ingres, Postgres, VoltDB and SciDB. Winner

// of 2014 ACM Turing Award. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stonebraker

"stonebraker",

// Janese Swanson (with others) developed the first of the Carmen Sandiego games. She went on to found Girl Tech.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janese_Swanson

"swanson",

// Aaron Swartz was influential in creating RSS, Markdown, Creative Commons, Reddit, and much of the internet as we

// know it today. He was devoted to freedom of information on the web. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

"swartz",

// Bertha Swirles was a theoretical physicist who made a number of contributions to early quantum theory.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Swirles

"swirles",

// Helen Brooke Taussig - American cardiologist and founder of the field of paediatric cardiology. https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_B._Taussig

"taussig",

// Valentina Tereshkova is a Russian engineer, cosmonaut and politician. She was the first woman to fly to space in

// 1963. In 2013, at the age of 76, she offered to go on a one-way mission to Mars. https://en.wikipedia

// .org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova

"tereshkova",

// Nikola Tesla invented the AC electric system and every gadget ever used by a James Bond villain. https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla

"tesla",

// Marie Tharp - American geologist and oceanic cartographer who co-created the first scientific map of the

// Atlantic Ocean floor. Her work led to the acceptance of the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tharp

"tharp",

// Ken Thompson - co-creator of UNIX and the C programming language - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson

"thompson",

// Linus Torvalds invented Linux and Git. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

"torvalds",

// Youyou Tu - Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and educator known for discovering artemisinin and

// dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, which has saved millions of lives. Joint winner of the 2015 Nobel

// Prize in Physiology or Medicine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Youyou

"tu",

// Alan Turing was a founding father of computer science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing.

"turing",

// Varahamihira - Ancient Indian mathematician who discovered trigonometric formulae during 505-587 CE - https://en

// .wikipedia.org/wiki/Var%C4%81hamihira#Contributions

"varahamihira",

// Dorothy Vaughan was a NASA mathematician and computer programmer on the SCOUT launch vehicle program that put

// America's first satellites into space - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Vaughan

"vaughan",

// Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya - is a notable Indian engineer. He is a recipient of the Indian Republic's

// highest honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1955. On his birthday, 15 September is celebrated as Engineer's Day in

// India in his memory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visvesvaraya

"visvesvaraya",

// Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard - German biologist, won Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995 for research

// on the genetic control of embryonic development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_N%C3%BCsslein-Volhard

"volhard",

// Cédric Villani - French mathematician, won Fields Medal, Fermat Prize and Poincaré Price for his work in

// differential geometry and statistical mechanics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_Villani

"villani",

// Marlyn Wescoff - one of the original programmers of the ENIAC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC -

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlyn_Meltzer

"wescoff",

// Sylvia B. Wilbur - British computer scientist who helped develop the ARPANET, was one of the first to

// exchange email in the UK and a leading researcher in computer-supported collaborative work.

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Wilbur

"wilbur",

// Andrew Wiles - Notable British mathematician who proved the enigmatic Fermat's Last Theorem -

// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wiles

"wiles",

// Roberta Williams, did pioneering work in graphical adventure games for personal computers, particularly the

// King's Quest series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_Williams