Computer People - R
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 'R'. Clicking on any of the below links will open a biography for that person.
 | Radia Perlman Mother of the Internet. Category: Engineer, Female, Inventor, and Writer |
 | Ralph Baer Father of Videogames. Category: Engineer, Father, Inventor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Ralph Palmer Helped create the IBM 604 Electronic Calculator. Category: Inventor |
 | Ramakrishnan Srikant Research scientist at Google with interest in data mining. Category: Inventor and Scientist |
 | Randy Pausch American professor of computer science and human computer interaction at CMU. Category: Founder, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | Rasmus Lerdorf Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship best known as the creator of the PHP scripting language. Category: Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Raymond Kurzweil American author, futurist and inventor of the Kurzweil K250 music keyboard. Category: Inventor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Ray Ozzie American software industry entrepreneur and Chief Technical Officer at Microsoft. Category: Entrepreneur, Inventor, and Twitter |
 | Ray Tomlinson American programmer who implemented an email system on the ARPANET. Category: Personality and Programmer |
 | Reid Hoffman American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author known as the co-founder of LinkedIn Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Rene Descartes French philosopher, mathematician and writer dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy' Category: Father, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Reynold Johnson Inventor of the disk drive and videocassette tape. Category: Father, Inventor, President, and Programmer |
 | Richard Arkwright Englishman who is often credited with inventing the spinning frame and creator of the modern factory system. Category: Entrepreneur |
 | Richard Stallman American software freedom activist and computer programmer who lanched the GNU project. Category: Founder, Inventor, and Programmer |
 | Richard Stearns Computer scientist who established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory. Category: Scientist and Writer |
 | Robert Adler Austrian-born American inventor with numerous patents, most notably the wireless remote control. Category: Inventor |
 | Robert Cailliau Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who helped develop the World Wide Web. Category: Engineer, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Dennard Inventor of DRAM. Category: Engineer and Inventor |
 | Robert Enderle American technology analyst and labled as the most quoted technology analysts in the media. Category: Analyst, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Robert Floyd Computer scientist who designed the Floyd-Warshall algorithm. Category: Scientist and Writer |
 | Robert Frankston Co-creator of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. Category: Founder and Programmer |
 | Robert Metcalfe Founder of 3Com. Category: Coined, Founder, and Programmer |
 | Robert Miner Co-founder of Oracle Corporation and developer of its relational database management system. Category: Founder and Programmer |
 | Robert Moog American pioneer of electronic music who is best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer. Category: Inventor |
 | Robert Morris Best known for creating the Morris Worm, the first Internet worm. Category: Convict, Father, Founder, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Noyce Inventor of the integrated circit and co-founder of Intel.Microsoft. Category: Founder and Inventor |
 | Robert Patrick Architect of the first operating system in the world, GM-NAA I/O. Category: Inventor |
 | Robert Pike Canadian software engineer and author known for his work with Plan 9 at Bell Labs. Category: Editor, Engineer, Inventor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Robert Scoble American blogger, author, and technical evangelist who runs Scobleizer. Category: Twitter, Writer, and sponsor |
 | Robert Stein Computer pioneer who founded the Voyager Company. Category: Founder |
 | Robert Tarjan American computer scientist who discovered several graph algorithms. Category: Inventor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robin Milner British computer scientist who developed LCF, one of the first tools for automated theorem proving. Category: Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Roger Needham Computer scientist known for the BAN lgoic and Tiny Encryption algorithm. Category: Inventor, Programmer, and Scientist |
 | Ryan Block Technology journalist, critic, former editor of Engadget, and co-founder of gdgt. Category: Editor, Founder, and Twitter |