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The bios Example Collection

The bios collection provides example data for experimenting with MongoDB. Many of this guide’s examples on insert, update and read operations create or query data from the bios collection.

The following documents comprise the bios collection. In the examples, the data might be different, as the examples themselves make changes to the data.

{
    "_id" : 1,
    "name" : {
        "first" : "John",
        "last" : "Backus"
    },
    "birth" : ISODate("1924-12-03T05:00:00Z"),
    "death" : ISODate("2007-03-17T04:00:00Z"),
    "contribs" : [
        "Fortran",
        "ALGOL",
        "Backus-Naur Form",
        "FP"
    ],
    "awards" : [
        {
            "award" : "W.W. McDowell Award",
            "year" : 1967,
            "by" : "IEEE Computer Society"
        },
        {
            "award" : "National Medal of Science",
            "year" : 1975,
            "by" : "National Science Foundation"
        },
        {
            "award" : "Turing Award",
            "year" : 1977,
            "by" : "ACM"
        },
        {
            "award" : "Draper Prize",
            "year" : 1993,
            "by" : "National Academy of Engineering"
        }
    ]
}

{
    "_id" : ObjectId("51df07b094c6acd67e492f41"),
    "name" : {
        "first" : "John",
        "last" : "McCarthy"
    },
    "birth" : ISODate("1927-09-04T04:00:00Z"),
    "death" : ISODate("2011-12-24T05:00:00Z"),
    "contribs" : [
        "Lisp",
        "Artificial Intelligence",
        "ALGOL"
    ],
    "awards" : [
        {
            "award" : "Turing Award",
            "year" : 1971,
            "by" : "ACM"
        },
        {
            "award" : "Kyoto Prize",
            "year" : 1988,
            "by" : "Inamori Foundation"
        },
        {
            "award" : "National Medal of Science",
            "year" : 1990,
            "by" : "National Science Foundation"
        }
    ]
}

{
    "_id" : 3,
    "name" : {
        "first" : "Grace",
        "last" : "Hopper"
    },
    "title" : "Rear Admiral",
    "birth" : ISODate("1906-12-09T05:00:00Z"),
    "death" : ISODate("1992-01-01T05:00:00Z"),
    "contribs" : [
        "UNIVAC",
        "compiler",
        "FLOW-MATIC",
        "COBOL"
    ],
    "awards" : [
        {
            "award" : "Computer Sciences Man of the Year",
            "year" : 1969,
            "by" : "Data Processing Management Association"
        },
        {
            "award" : "Distinguished Fellow",
            "year" : 1973,
            "by" : " British Computer Society"
        },
        {
            "award" : "W. W. McDowell Award",
            "year" : 1976,
            "by" : "IEEE Computer Society"
        },
        {
            "award" : "National Medal of Technology",
            "year" : 1991,
            "by" : "United States"
        }
    ]
}

{
    "_id" : 4,
    "name" : {
        "first" : "Kristen",
        "last" : "Nygaard"
    },
    "birth" : ISODate("1926-08-27T04:00:00Z"),
    "death" : ISODate("2002-08-10T04:00:00Z"),
    "contribs" : [
        "OOP",
        "Simula"
    ],
    "awards" : [
        {
            "award" : "Rosing Prize",
            "year" : 1999,
            "by" : "Norwegian Data Association"
        },
        {
            "award" : "Turing Award",
            "year" : 2001,
            "by" : "ACM"
        },
        {
            "award" : "IEEE John von Neumann Medal",
            "year" : 2001,
            "by" : "IEEE"
        }
    ]
}

{
    "_id" : 5,
    "name" : {
        "first" : "Ole-Johan",
        "last" : "Dahl"
    },
    "birth" : ISODate("1931-10-12T04:00:00Z"),
    "death" : ISODate("2002-06-29T04:00:00Z"),
    "contribs" : [
        "OOP",
        "Simula"
    ],
    "awards" : [
        {
            "award" : "Rosing Prize",
            "year" : 1999,
            "by" : "Norwegian Data Association"
        },
        {
            "award" : "Turing Award",
            "year" : 2001,
            "by" : "ACM"
        },
        {
            "award" : "IEEE John von Neumann Medal",
            "year" : 2001,
            "by" : "IEEE"
        }
    ]
}

{
    "_id" : 6,
    "name" : {
        "first" : "Guido",
        "last" : "van Rossum"
    },
    "birth" : ISODate("1956-01-31T05:00:00Z"),
    "contribs" : [
        "Python"
    ],
    "awards" : [
        {
            "award" : "Award for the Advancement of Free Software",
            "year" : 2001,
            "by" : "Free Software Foundation"
        },
        {
            "award" : "NLUUG Award",
            "year" : 2003,
            "by" : "NLUUG"
        }
    ]
}

{
    "_id" : ObjectId("51e062189c6ae665454e301d"),
    "name" : {
        "first" : "Dennis",
        "last" : "Ritchie"
    },
    "birth" : ISODate("1941-09-09T04:00:00Z"),
    "death" : ISODate("2011-10-12T04:00:00Z"),
    "contribs" : [
        "UNIX",
        "C"
    ],
    "awards" : [
        {
            "award" : "Turing Award",
            "year" : 1983,
            "by" : "ACM"
        },
        {
            "award" : "National Medal of Technology",
            "year" : 1998,
            "by" : "United States"
        },
        {
            "award" : "Japan Prize",
            "year" : 2011,
            "by" : "The Japan Prize Foundation"
        }
    ]
}

{
    "_id" : 8,
    "name" : {
        "first" : "Yukihiro",
        "aka" : "Matz",
        "last" : "Matsumoto"
    },
    "birth" : ISODate("1965-04-14T04:00:00Z"),
    "contribs" : [
        "Ruby"
    ],
    "awards" : [
        {
            "award" : "Award for the Advancement of Free Software",
            "year" : "2011",
            "by" : "Free Software Foundation"
        }
    ]
}

{
    "_id" : 9,
    "name" : {
        "first" : "James",
        "last" : "Gosling"
    },
    "birth" : ISODate("1955-05-19T04:00:00Z"),
    "contribs" : [
        "Java"
    ],
    "awards" : [
        {
            "award" : "The Economist Innovation Award",
            "year" : 2002,
            "by" : "The Economist"
        },
        {
            "award" : "Officer of the Order of Canada",
            "year" : 2007,
            "by" : "Canada"
        }
    ]
}

{
    "_id" : 10,
    "name" : {
        "first" : "Martin",
        "last" : "Odersky"
    },
    "contribs" : [
        "Scala"
    ]
}