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This is a list of well-known computer scientists, people who do work in computer science, in particular researchers and authors.
Some persons notable as programmers are included here because they work in research as well as program. A few of these people pre-date the invention of the digital computer; they are now regarded as computer scientists because their work can be seen as leading to the invention of the computer. Others are mathematicians whose work falls within what would now be called theoretical computer science, such as complexity theory and algorithmic information theory.
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A
- Hal Abelson - intersection of computing and teaching
- Serge Abiteboul - database theory
- Samson Abramsky - game semantics
- Leonard Adleman - RSA, DNA computing
- Manindra Agrawal - polynomial-time primality testing
- Luis von Ahn - human computation
- Alfred Aho - compilers book, and the 'a' in awk
- Frances E. Allen - compiler optimization
- Gene Amdahl - super-computer developer, founder of Amdahl Corporation
- Tom Anderson - dependability, fault-tolerant computing
- Andrew Appel - compilers text books
- Sanjeev Arora - PCP theorem
- John Vincent Atanasoff - computer pioneer
B
- Charles Babbage - Invented first mechanical computer
- Charles Bachman
- John Backus - FORTRAN and Backus–Naur form
- David A. Bader
- Anthony James Barr - SAS System
- Rudolf Bayer - B-tree
- Gordon Bell - DEC VAX, Computer Structures
- Steven M. Bellovin - Network security
- Tim Berners-Lee - World Wide Web
- Peter Bernus
- Dines Bjørner - VDM and RAISE
- Gerrit Blaauw - one of the principal designers of the IBM System 360 line of computers
- Manuel Blum - cryptography
- Barry Boehm - software engineering economics, spiral development
- Grady Booch - Unified Modeling Language, Object Management Group
- George Boole - Boolean logic
- Bert Bos - Cascading Style Sheets
- Jonathan Bowen - Z notation and formal methods
- Steve Bourne - Bourne Shell, portable ALGOL 68C compiler.
- Robert Boyer - string searching and ACL2 theorem prover
- Jack E. Bresenham - early computer graphics contributions including Bresenham's algorithm
- Per Brinch Hansen (surname "Brinch Hansen") - concurrency
- Sjaak Brinkkemper - methodology of product software development
- Fred Brooks - System 360, OS/360, The Mythical Man-Month, No Silver Bullet
- Rod Brooks
- Alan Burns - Real-time Systems
C
- Martin Campbell-Kelly - history of computing
- Luca Cardelli - objects
- Edwin Catmull - Computer graphics
- Vinton Cerf - Internet, TCP/IP
- Gregory Chaitin
- Zhou Chaochen - Duration calculus
- Alonzo Church - mathematics of combinators and lambda calculus
- Edmund M. Clarke - Model checking
- John Cocke - RISC
- Edgar F. Codd - formulated the database relational model
- Gordon Cormack - co-inventor of dynamic Markov compression
- Stephen Cook - NP-completeness
- James Cooley - FFT
- Fernando J. Corbató - CTSS, Multics
- Patrick Cousot - abstract interpretation
- Seymour Cray - Cray Research, supercomputer
- Nello Cristianini - Machine Learning, Pattern Analysis, Artificial Intelligence
D
- Ole-Johan Dahl - Simula
- Andries van Dam - computer graphics, hypertext
- Christopher J. Date - proponent of database relational model
- Tom DeMarco
- Dorothy Denning - security
- Peter Denning - identified the use of an operating system's working set and balance set, President of ACM
- Michael Dertouzos - Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) from 1974 to 2001
- Alexander Dewdney
- Vinod Dham - Pentium processor
- Jan Dietz
- Whitfield Diffie - Cryptography
- Edsger Dijkstra - Algorithms, Goto considered harmful, Semaphore (programming)
- Jack Dongarra - Linear Algebra high performance computing
- Marco Dorigo - Ant-Colony Optimization
- Charles Stark Draper - Apollo Guidance Computer
- Adam Dunkels - Protothreads
- Alan Dix - Literally wrote the book on HCI.
E
- Annie J. Easley
- Wim Ebbinkhuijsen - Cobol
- John Presper Eckert - ENIAC
- Philip-Emeagwali - Supercomputing
- E. Allen Emerson - Model checking
- Douglas Engelbart - computer mouse
- Andrey Ershov
- Christopher Riche Evans
- Dave Evans - computer graphics
- Shimon Even
F
- Scott Fahlman
- Edward Feigenbaum - intelligence
- Michael Feldman
- Edward Felten - security
- Tim Finin
- Raphael Finkel
- Donald Firesmith
- Tommy Flowers - Colossus
- Robert Floyd - NP-completeness
- James D. Foley
- Ken Forbus
- Herbert W. Franke
- Daniel P. Friedman
G
- Richard Gabriel
- Zvi Galil
- Bernard Galler - MAD
- Hector Garcia-Molina
- Michael Garey - NP-Completeness
- Hugo de Garis
- David Gelernter
- Charles Geschke
- Seymour Ginsburg - Formal languages, Automata Theory, AFL Theory, Database Theory
- Robert L. Glass
- Kurt Gödel - Computability (although not a computer scientist per se, his work was invaluable in the field nonetheless)
- Joseph Goguen
- Adele Goldberg - Smalltalk
- Ian Goldberg - cryptographer, Off-the-record messaging
- Oded Goldreich - cryptography, computational complexity theory
- Shafi Goldwasser - cryptography, computational complexity theory
- Gene Golub - Matrix (math) computation
- James Gosling - NeWS, Java
- Paul Graham
- Susan L. Graham - Compilers, programming environments
- Jim Gray - Database
- Sheila Greibach - Greibach normal form, AFL Theory
- Ralph Griswold - SNOBOL
- Tom Gruber
- Ramanathan V. Guha - RDF, Netscape, RSS (file format), Epinions
- Neil J. Gunther - Computer performance analysis and capacity planning
- Peter G. Gyarmati - Adaptivity in operating systems and networking
H
- Philipp Matthäus Hahn - mechanical calculator
- Eldon C. Hall - Apollo Guidance Computer
- Joseph Halpern
- Richard Hamming - Hamming code, founder of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Juris Hartmanis - computational complexity theory
- Johan Håstad - computational complexity theory
- Les Hatton - software failure and vulnerabilities
- He Jifeng - provably correct systems
- Martin Hellman
- James Hendler - Semantic Web
- John L. Hennessy - Computer architecture
- Andrew Herbert
- Danny Hillis - Connection Machine
- Geoffrey Hinton
- C. A. R. Hoare - Logic, rigor, CSP
- John Henry Holland - Genetic Algorithms
- Herman Hollerith - Invented the recording of data on a machine readable medium, using punched cards
- John Hopcroft - Compilers
- Admiral Grace Hopper - Compilers, COBOL
- Alston Householder
- David A. Huffman - Huffman code
I
J
- Ivar Jacobson - Unified Modeling Language, Object Management Group
- Ramesh Jain
- Jonathan James
- David S. Johnson
- Stephen C. Johnson
- Cliff Jones - VDM
- Michael I. Jordan
- Bill Joy - Sun Microsystems, BSD UNIX, vi, csh
K
- William Kahan - numerical analysis
- Robert E. Kahn - TCP/IP
- Avinash Kak - digital image processing
- Alan Kay - Dynabook, Smalltalk
- Richard Karp - NP completeness
- Narendra Karmarkar - Karmarkar's algorithm
- Marek Karpinski - NP optimization problems
- John George Kemeny - BASIC
- Ken Kennedy - compiling for parallel and vector machines
- Brian Kernighan - Unix, and the 'k' in awk
- Carl Kesselman - grid computing
- Stephen Cole Kleene - Kleene closure, recursion theory
- Leonard Kleinrock - ARPANET, queueing theory, packet switching, hierarchical routing
- Donald Knuth - The Art of Computer Programming, TeX, literate programming
- Andrew Koenig - C++
- Michael Kölling - BlueJ
- Janet L. Kolodner - case-based reasoning
- David Korn - Korn shell
- Kees Koster - ALGOL 68
- John Koza - genetic programming
- Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov - algorithmic complexity theory
- Robert Kowalski - logic programming
- John Krogstie - The SEQUAL framework
- Thomas E. Kurtz - BASIC
L
- Monica S. Lam
- Leslie Lamport - Algorithms for concurrency
- Butler W. Lampson
- Peter J. Landin
- Börje Langefors
- Joshua Lederberg
- Manny M Lehman - Laws of Software Evolution
- Douglas Lenat - Artificial intelligence, Cyc
- Rasmus Lerdorf - PHP
- Leonid Levin - computational complexity theory
- J.C.R. Licklider
- David Liddle
- Barbara Liskov - Programming languages
- Ada Lovelace - first programmer
- Nancy Lynch
M
- Zohar Manna - Fuzzy logic
- James Martin - Information Engineering
- John Mashey
- Yuri Matiyasevich - solving Hilbert's tenth problem
- Yukihiro Matsumoto - Ruby programming language
- John McCarthy - Lisp programming language, Artificial intelligence
- Douglas McIlroy - pipes
- Chris McKinstry - Artificial intelligence, Mindpixel
- Marshall Kirk McKusick - BSD, Berkeley Fast File System
- Lambert Meertens - Algol68, ABC programming language
- Bertrand Meyer - Eiffel
- Silvio Micali - cryptography
- Robin Milner - ML
- Marvin Minsky - Artificial intelligence, perceptrons, Society of Mind
- Dr. Paul Mockapetris - Domain Name System (DNS)
- Cleve Moler - numerical analysis and MATLAB
- Edward F. Moore - Moore machine
- Gordon Moore - Moore's law
- J Strother Moore - string searching and ACL2 theorem prover
- Hans Moravec
- Robert Tappan Morris - the Morris worm
- Joel Moses - Macsyma
- Stephen Muggleton
N
- Mihai Nadin - Anticipation research
- Frieder Nake - Pioneer in computer arts
- Peter Naur - BNF, Algol 60
- Roger Needham
- James G. Nell - GERAM
- Bernard de Neumann - Massively parallel autonomous cellular processor, software engineering research
- John von Neumann - Early computers, von Neumann machine
- Allen Newell - Artificial intelligence, Computer Structures
- Max Newman - COLOSSUS and MADM
- Nils Nilsson - Artificial intelligence
- G.M. Nijssen - NIAM
- Jerre Noe
- Emmy Noether
- Peter Nordin - Artificial intelligence, genetic programming, and evolutionary robotics
- Donald Norman - User interfaces and usability
- George Novacky - Assistant Department Chair and Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Assistant Dean of CAS for Undergraduate Studies at University of Pittsburgh
- Kristen Nygaard - Simula
O
- T. William Olle - Ferranti Mercury
- Mark Overmars - games programming
P
- Christos Papadimitriou
- Kamran Parsaye - Intelligent Databases
- David A. Patterson
- Judea Pearl - Artificial intelligence, Search
- Alan Perlis - Programming Pearls
- Radia Perlman - Spanning-tree protocol
- Simon Peyton Jones - Functional programming
- Gordon Plotkin
- Amir Pnueli - temporal logic
- Willem van der Poel - computer graphics, robotics, geographic information systems, imaging, multimedia, virtual environments, and games
- Emil Post - mathematics
- Jon Postel - Internet
- Franco Preparata
Q
R
- Michael O. Rabin - Nondeterministic machines
- T. V. Raman - Accessibility, Emacspeak, etc.
- Brian Randell - dependability
- Raj Reddy - AI
- David P. Reed
- John C. Reynolds
- Joyce K. Reynolds - Internet
- Adam Riese
- Dennis Ritchie - C, UNIX
- Ron Rivest - RSA, MD5, RC4
- Colette Rolland - REMORA methodology, meta modelling
- Azriel Rosenfeld
- Douglas T. Ross - Structured Analysis and Design Technique
- Guido van Rossum - Python programming language
- Winston W. Royce - Waterfall model
- Rudy Rucker - Mathematician, Writer, Educator
- Steven Rudich - Complexity Theory, Cryptography
- Jeff Rulifson
- James Rumbaugh - Unified Modeling Language, Object Management Group
S
- George Sadowsky
- Gerard Salton - Information retrieval
- Jean E. Sammet - Programming languages
- Carl Sassenrath - Operating systems, Programming languages, Amiga, REBOL
- Wilhelm Schickard - One of the first calculating machines
- Bruce Schneier - cryptography, security
- Fred B. Schneider - concurrent and distributed computing
- Dana Scott - domain theory
- Michael L. Scott - Programming Languages, Algorithms, Distributed Computing
- Ravi Sethi - Compilers, 2nd Dragon Book
- Adi Shamir - RSA, cryptanalysis
- Claude Shannon - information theory
- David E. Shaw - Computational finance, computational biochemistry, parallel architectures
- Scott Shenker - networking
- Ben Shneiderman - Human-computer interaction, Information Visualization
- Edward H. Shortliffe - MYCIN (Medical diagnostoc expert system)
- Joseph Sifakis - Model checking
- Herbert Simon - Artificial intelligence
- Daniel Sleator - Splay tree, Amortized Analysis
- Arne Sølvberg - information modelling
- Steven Spewak - Enterprise Architecture Planning
- Robert Sproull
- Richard Stallman - GNU Project
- Ronald Stamper
- Richard Stearns - computational complexity theory
- Guy L. Steele, Jr. - Scheme, Common Lisp
- Thomas Sterling - Creator of Beowulf clusters
- Larry Stockmeyer - computational complexity, distributed computing
- Michael Stonebraker - relational database practice and theory
- Christopher Strachey - denotational semantics
- Bjarne Stroustrup - C++
- Madhu Sudan - computational complexity theory, coding theory
- Gerald Jay Sussman - Scheme
- Bert Sutherland - Graphics, Internet
- Ivan Sutherland - Graphics
- Mario Szegedy - Complexity Theory and Quantum Computing
T
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum - Operating systems, Minix
- Robert Tarjan - splay tree
- Shang-Hua Teng - Analysis of Algorithms
- Larry Tesler - human-computer interaction, graphical user interface, Apple Macintosh
- Avie Tevanian - Mach kernel team, NeXT, Mac OS X
- Bruce H. Thomas - Augmented Reality, Wearable Computing, ARQuake
- Ken Thompson - Unix
- Walter F. Tichy - RCS
- Seinosuke Toda - Computation complexity, recipient of 1998 Gödel Prize
- Linus Torvalds - Linux kernel, Git
- Joseph F Traub - computational complexity of scientific problems
- John Tukey - FFT
- Alan Turing - British pioneer, Turing Machine
U
- Jeffrey D. Ullman - Compilers, databases, Complexity theory
V
- Leslie Valiant - computational complexity theory, computational learning theory
- Srinidhi Varadarajan - System X: VirginiaTech's Power Mac G5 Supercluster
- François Vernadat - Enterprise modeling
- Richard Veryard - Enterprise modeling
W
- Philip Wadler - Functional programming
- David Wagner - Security, Cryptography
- Larry Wall - Perl programming language
- James Z. Wang
- Kevin Warwick - AI
- Jan Weglarz
- Peter J. Weinberger - Programming language design, the 'w' in awk
- Joseph Weizenbaum - AI, ELIZA
- Adriaan van Wijngaarden - Dutch pioneer; ARRA, ALGOL
- Mary Allen Wilkes - LINC developer, Assembler-Linker designer
- Maurice Vincent Wilkes - Microprogramming, EDSAC
- Yorick Wilks - Computational linguistics, Artificial Intelligence
- Manfred K. Warmuth - Computational Learning Theory
- James H. Wilkinson - Numerical analysis
- Sophie Wilson
- Shmuel Winograd - Coppersmith-Winograd algorithm
- Terry Winograd - AI, SHRDLU
- Niklaus Wirth - Pascal, Modula, and Oberon languages
- Dennis E. Wisnosky - Icam, IDEF
- Stephen Wolfram - Mathematica
- William Wulf - Compilers
X
Y
- Tao Yang
- Alec Yasinsac - security
- Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
- Edward Yourdon - Structured Systems Analysis and Design Method
Z
- Lotfi Zadeh - Fuzzy logic
- Arif Zaman - Pseudo-random number generator
- Konrad Zuse - German pioneer of hardware and software
See also
- List of pioneers in computer science
- List of programming language researchers
- List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Computer and information sciences)
- List of programmers
- List of computing people
- List of important publications in computer science
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