Computer People - B
Below is a listing of computer pioneers, inventors, and other people who have contributed to the computer industry that have a first or last name beginning with the letter 'B'. Clicking on any of the below links will open a biography for that person.
 | Bailey Diffie American cryptographer and pioneer of public-key cryptography. Category: President, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Barbara Liskov First women in the United States to be awarded a Ph.D. from a computer science department and developer of several significant projects. Category: Female, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Barry Boehm American software engineer known for his many contributions to software engineering. Category: Engineer, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Barry Leiba Developer at IBM Research that helped develop Spam Guru and is involved with the IETF. Category: Programmer, Researcher, and Scientist |
 | Bashir Rameyev Soviet inventor and scientist and one of the founders of Soviet computing. Category: Founder, Inventor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Becky Worley American journalist and broadcaster best known for being TechLive's Computer Security Analyst. Category: Analyst, Female, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ben Forta Author and senior technical evangelist for Adobe Systems. Category: Programmer and Writer |
 | Benjamin Franklin Author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, and much more. Category: Inventor, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ben Shneiderman And professor for Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. Category: Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ben Silbermann Co-founder and CEO of Pinterest. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, and Founder |
 | Beny Alagem An Israeli American entrepreneur, developer, and the founder of Packard Bell Electronics Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, and Programmer |
 | Bernard Galler American mathematician and computer scientist who worked in developing large-scale operating systems and computer languages. Category: Mathematician, Programmer, and Scientist |
 | Bertrand Meyer Academic, author, and consultant who created the Eiffel programming language. Category: Writer |
 | Bill Atkinson Computer engineer at Apple who help create MacPaint, QuickDraw, and HyperCard. Category: Engineer |
 | Bill Gates Founder of Microsoft. Category: CEO, Founder, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Bill Moggridge British designer, author, and educator who designed one of the first laptop computer. Category: Director, Founder, and Writer |
 | Bjarne Stroustrup Computer scientist, known as the creator of the C++ computer programming language. Category: Entrepreneur, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Blaise Pascal Mathematician, writer, child prodigy, and inventor of the Pascaline. Category: Inventor, Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Bob Bemer Father of ASCII. Category: Coined, Father, Inventor, and Programmer |
 | Bob Evans Computer pioneer and corporate executive at IBM. Category: Chairman and Programmer |
 | Bob Kahn Internet pioneer, engineer, and computer scientist who helped develop TCP/IP. Category: Engineer, Inventor, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bonnie Ross General manager at Microsoft Game Studios and studio head of 343 Industries Category: Manager |
 | Boris Babayan Pioneering creator of supercomputers in Soviet Union. Category: Inventor |
 | Borje Langefors Swedish engineer and computer scientist who made systems development a science. Category: Engineer, Founder, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bram Cohen Author of the P2P BitTorrent protocol. Category: Founder, Hacker, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Brendan Eich Programmer and creator of JavaScript. Category: Programmer |
 | Brian Fargo American video game designer, producer, programmer and executive, and founder of developers Interplay Entertainment. Category: Founder, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Brian Kernighan Canadian computer scientist who coined the term Unix and helped with the development of Unix, AWK, and AMPL. Category: Coined, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bruce Eckel Author and lecturer who has written numerous books and articles on computer programming. Category: Founder, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Burton Smith Computer architect who has made major contributions to the field of parallel computation. Category: Inventor |
 | Butler Lampson Computer scientist who help with the development of the first personal computer. Category: Founder, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |