Professor computer pioneers
Below is a listing of computer pioneers that have been tagged as a Professor. Clicking on any of the below links will open the biography for that person.
 | Alain Glavieux Co-inventor of codes that helped shape digital communication. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Alexander Douglas Developer of the first graphical computer game, OXO. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Andrew Ng Associate professor of the Department of Computer Science at Stanford and co-founder of Coursera. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Professor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Andrew Tanenbaum American computer scientist best known as the author of MINIX. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Antoni Kilinski Helped develop the computer science curriculum. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | August Dvorak Educational psychologist best known for creating the Dvorak simplified keyboard. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Barry Boehm American software engineer known for his many contributions to software engineering. Category: Director, Engineer, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Ben Shneiderman American computer scientist, and professor for Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bernhard Thalheim Computer scientist and professor of Information Systems Engineering known for conceptual modeling and its foundation. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Brian Moriarty American video game developer. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Corrado Bohm Computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Rome. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Dana Scott Professor of computer science, philosophy, and mathematical logic. Category: Editor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Daniel Friedman American computer scientist, author and programming language researcher. Category: Editor, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Daniel Mccracken American Computer scientist, pioneer, and programmer. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Noble Historian, author, and professor of Social and Political Thought. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | David Patterson American computer pioneer who coined and contributed to RISC. Category: Coined, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | Dimitri Bertsekas Applied mathematician and computer scientist known for Convex optimization and Approximate Dynamic Programming. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Donald Knuth Father of analysis of algorithms, creator of the TeX computer typesetting system and metafont font. Category: Father, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Douglas Hofstadter American author, professor, and cognitive scientist. Category: Manager, Personality, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edith Clarke Electrical engineer and the first woman employed as an electrical engineer in the United States. Category: Engineer, Female, Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Edmund Clarke FORE system professor and computer scientist who developed a method for verifying hardware and software designs. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edward Shortliffe Canadian-born American physician and computer scientist known for his work in artificial intelligence in medicine. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edward Tufte American statistician and professor. Category: Coined, Manager, Professor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Friedrich Bauer Computer scientist known for data structure that helped developed the programming languages ALGOL 58 and ALGOL 60. Category: Coined, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Gaston Gonnet Uruguayan-Canadian computer scientist known for his work with the Maple computer algebra system. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Gene Golub Renowned numerical analyst, professor, and author. Category: Analyst, Editor, Founder, Manager, President, Professor, Researcher, and Writer |
 | George Necula Best known for his Ph.D. thesis work first describing proof-carrying code. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Gerald Estrin UCLA professor who led the development of the WEIZAC, the first large-scale electronic computer outside of the United States. Category: Engineer, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Gerald Weinberg American computer scientist, author, and teacher. Category: Founder, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Gerard Salton Was best known for developing Vector Space Model for information retrieval. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Glen Culler Professor of electrical engineering and early innovator in the development of the Internet. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Gordon Brown Originated many of the concepts behind automatic-feedback control systems. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Harlan Mills Founder of Software Engineering Technology, Inc. Category: Founder, Manager, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Harry Goode American statistician, mathematician, electrical and chemical engineer, professor, and author. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Haskell Curry Pioneer of combinatorial logic. Category: Logician, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Hugh Herr American biophysicist and designer of specialized prostheses. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Professor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | I Bernard Cohen Professor of the history of science at Harvard and author of numerous books on the history of science and computers. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Igor Aleksander Emeritus professor of Neural System Engineering and Electronics Engineering at Imperial College. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Isaac Asimov American author and professor known for his science fiction books. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Jack Dennis Computer scientist and retired MIT professor who help develop the Multics project. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Professor, Scientist, Writer, and sponsor |
 | James Foley Co-author of several widely-used textbooks in the field of computer graphics. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Jeffrey Ullman Computer scientist, author, and professor at Stanford University. Category: Analyst, Founder, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jim Aspnes Professor in Computer Science at Yale University and creator of TinyMUD. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | John Bennet Australia professor of computer science and the founding president of the Australian Computer Society. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | John Conway Mathematician, contributor to the fields of number theory, game theory, and combinatorics, and inventor of Conway's Game of Life. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, and Writer |
 | John Eulenberg Professor Emeritus at Michigan State who created Stevie Wonder's first talking and signing computer (1975). Category: Manager, Professor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Gustafson American computer scientist and business man known for his work in High Performance Computing (HPC). Category: CEO, Director, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Impagliazzo Historian, author, and professor of the computing sciences. Category: Editor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | John Ousterhout Professor of computer science at University of California where he created Tcl scripting language and Tk platform. Category: Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Joseph Weizenbaum German-American author, professor emeritus of computer science at MIT who helped create MICR and created ELIZA. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Juris Hartmanis Computer scientist, computational theorist, and former professor at Cornell University. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Karen Jones Computer scientist who developed the concept of IDF (inverse document frequency). Category: Female, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ken Batcher Emeritus professor of Computer Science at Kent State University and former computer architect at Goodyear Aerospace. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Ken Goldberg American writer, artist, inventor, and researcher in Robotics. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, Researcher, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Kevin Warwick British scientist and professor of cybernetics known for his studies in the field of robotics. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Larry Constantine American software engineer and professor at the University of Madeira Portugal. Category: Engineer, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Larry Press Professor of Information Systems at California State University. Category: Editor, Manager, Professor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Laszlo Kalmar Hungarian mathematician considered the founder of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science. Category: Founder, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Lawrence Rowe Computer scientist and founding director of the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC). Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Leon Chua Professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at Berkeley and inventor of Chua's circuit. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Leonard Adleman Widely called the Father of DNA Computing. Category: Director, Father, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Lotfali Zadeh Mathematician, computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher and founder of fuzzy mathematics. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Lydia Kavraki Greek-American computer scientist known for her work on motion planning and bioinformatics. Category: Female, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Malcolm Mcilroy Mathematician, engineer, and programmer known for Unix pipelines and software componentry. Category: Chairman, Editor, Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Mark Tebbe Professor at University of Chicago and co-founder of Answers.com. Category: Chairman, Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Martin Odersky German computer scientist and Professor of programming methods at EPFL in Switzerland who specializes in code analysis. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Norbert Weiner American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at MIT and originator of cybernetics. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Norman Nie American social scientist who invented software that automates data analysis. Category: Entrepreneur, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Omer Reingold Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Silicon Valley. Category: Engineer, Manager, Professor, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Oren Etzioni American entrepreneur, professor and CEO of the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence. Category: CEO, Coined, Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Professor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Peter Elias Pioneer in the field of information theory and coding theory. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Rajeev Sangal Professor and author known for his work in processing of human languages in Computational Paninian Grammar (CPG) framework. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Randy Pausch American professor of computer science and human computer interaction at CMU. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | Richard Feynman American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics. Category: Manager, Physicist, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Harper British sociologist and principle researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. Category: Manager, Professor, Researcher, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Richard Mason Consultant, and author known for his work in ethics of information and the history of information systems in organizations. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Robert Fano Inventing (with Claude Shannon) Shannon-Fano coding. Category: Director, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Gentleman Canadian statistician known as one of the creators of the R (programming language). Category: Director, Manager, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Robert Lansdown Computer graphics pioneer and polymath and Professor Emeritus at Middlesex University Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Roger Moore Professor of spoken language processing in the Speech and Hearing Research Group at the University of Sheffield. Category: Manager, Professor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ronald Rivest American born cryptographer and one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm and the symmetric key encryption algorithms RC2. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Ronald Schafer American electrical engineer known for his work with signal processing. Category: Editor, Engineer, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | Rosalind Picard Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT. Category: Director, Female, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ross Ihaka Associate Professor of statistics and one of the creators of the R programming language. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Rudolf Bayer UB-tree, and the red-black tree. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Savvas Chamberlain Inventor, scientist, and professor who invented silicon image sensors. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Sebastian Thrun Founder of Google X, home to projects like the Google self-driving car and Google Glass. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Sergio Verdu Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University who teaches and conducts research on Information Theory. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Seymour Papert MIT mathematician and educator and one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Shafi Goldwasser Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. Category: Female, Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Solomon Golomb American engineer, mathematician, and professor known for his development of mathematical games. Category: Coined, Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, and Writer |
 | Stephen Keckler Senior Director of Architecture Research at NVIDIA who's interested in technology-scalable architectures. Category: Director, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Steven Coons Computer Graphics early pioneer, author, and former Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Stuart Moulthrop Author of hypertext fiction works Victory Garden. Category: Founder, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Stuart Russell Innovator in the philosophy and practice of Artificial Intelligence. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Sugata Mitra Professor at Newcastle University in England known for his Hole in the Wall project. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Susan Dumais Principal Researcher in the CLUES (Context, Learning, and User Experience for Search) Group of Microsoft Research. Category: Female, Manager, Professor, Researcher, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Thomas Cover Information theorist and professor at Stanford University. Category: Manager, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | Thomas Nicely Publicly disclosed the Pentium FDIV bug. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Vern Paxson Professor of Computer Science at Berkeley and Internet researcher. Category: Coined, Manager, Professor, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Wenmei Hwu Professor specializing in computer architecture, compiler design, parallel processing and computer microarchitecture. Category: Chairman, Director, Engineer, Manager, Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Wilhelm Schickard German professor of Hebrew and Astronomy and one of the first to design a direct entry calculating clock in the 17th century. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |