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

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