Scientist computer pioneers
Below is a listing of computer pioneers that have been tagged as a Scientist. Clicking on any of the below links will open the biography for that person.
 | Abraham Lempel Father of LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms. Category: Father, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Adele Goldberg Computer scientist who helped develop Smalltalk. Category: Female, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Al Alcorn Pong. Category: Engineer, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alain Colmerauer One of the earliest linguistic formalisms used in the development of the TAUM-METEO machine. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alan Kotok Computer scientist, hacker, and developer. Category: Engineer, Hacker, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alan Perlis Well-known and respected computer scientist known for his work with computer programming languages. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alan Turing Developer of the Turing Machine and Turing Test. Category: Analyst, Father, Logician, Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alexander Brudno Computer scientist who discovered the alpha-beta algorithm. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alexander Fraser British-American computer scientist. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alexander Graham Bell Inventor, engineer, and innovator best known for inventing the telephone. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Alfred Aho Canadian computer scientist and author known for the Aho-Corasick string matching algorithm. Category: Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Allen Dumont American scientist best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube for use in television receivers. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Amanda Chessell Computer scientist and engineer at IBM known for software inventions and innovation of development tools. Category: Engineer, Female, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Amir Pnueli Respected computer scientist who focused on temporal logic and model checking. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Anatoliy Morozov Ukrainian scientist in the field of cybernetics and chief designer of the RADA system. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Andreas Raab German computer scientist who developed new concepts and applications in 3D graphics and key contributor to the Squeak platform. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Andrew Booth Inventor of Booth's multiplication algorithm that led to the invention of drum memory. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Andrew Chi-chih Yao Computer scientist and computational theorist who created Yao's Principle. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Andrew Tanenbaum American computer scientist best known as the author of MINIX. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Andy Hertzfeld One of the original Apple Macintosh developers. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Antonin Svoboda Computer scientist, engineer, and researcher credited for fault-tolerant computer systems. Category: Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Barbara Liskov First women in the United States to be awarded a Ph.D. from a computer science department. Category: Female, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Barbara Simons American computer scientist and former president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Category: Director, Female, Founder, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Barry Leiba Developer at IBM Research that helped develop Spam Guru and is involved with the IETF. Category: Manager, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bashir Rameyev Soviet inventor and scientist and one of the founders of Soviet computing. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, 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 |
 | Benjamin Franklin Author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, and much more. Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bernard Galler American mathematician and computer scientist who worked in developing large-scale operating systems and computer languages. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, 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 |
 | Bjarne Stroustrup Computer scientist, known as the creator of the C++ computer programming language. Category: Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bob Kahn Internet pioneer, engineer, and computer scientist who helped develop TCP/IP. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bob Wallace American computer scientist, software pioneer and Microsoft's ninth employee. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Borje Langefors Swedish engineer and computer scientist who made systems development a science. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Brian Kernighan Canadian computer scientist who coined the term Unix and helped with the development of Unix, AWK, and AMPL. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Butler Lampson Computer scientist who help with the development of the first personal computer. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Charles Bachman Computer scientist known for his work in computer databases. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Charles Hoare Computer scientist who developed the Quicksort algorithm. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Charles Stanhope Scientist and inventor of the printing press. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Charles Weiss American computer scientist and software designer and one of the first employees of Oracle. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Christopher Strachey British scientist known for CPL and Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages. Category: Coined, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Cleve Moler American computer programmer and inventor of MATLAB. Category: Chairman, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Corrado Bohm Computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Rome. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Cuthbert Hurd Computer scientist who helped IBM develop the first general-purpose computer. Category: Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Cyril Cleverdon British librarian and computer scientist who is best known for his work on the evaluation of information retrieval systems. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Dabbala Reddy Indian American computer scientist and artificial intelligence pioneer. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Dan Kaminsky American security researcher and chief scientist of White Ops. Category: Hacker, Manager, Researcher, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Dana Ulery Pioneer in scientific computing applications and the first woman engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Category: Engineer, Female, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Danese Cooper Open source diva and American computer programmer. Category: Director, Female, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, 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 |
 | Danny Cohen Internet pioneer and network specialist who designed the first real-time visual flight simulator. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Personality, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Bailey Senior scientist of Computational Research Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Clark American computer scientist known for the Clark-Wilson model. Category: Chairman, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Culler Inventor of TinyOS. Category: Director, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Ferrucci American Computer Scientist who led the IBM team in the development of IBM Watson. Category: Manager, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Wheeler First computer scientist who completed a PhD in computer science. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Young American computer scientist and mathematician. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Demis Hassabis British artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, computer game designer and gamer. Category: Founder, Gamer, Manager, Programmer, Researcher, Scientist, Twitter, 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 |
 | Don Libes Computer scientist at NIST and creator of STEP and Expect software programs. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Don Syme Australian born computer scientist and creator of the F# programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Researcher, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Donald Bitzer American electrical engineer and computer scientist and Father of PLATO. Category: Engineer, Father, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Donald Chamberlin American computer scientist known for SQL. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Donald Davies Welsh computer scientist known for helping to invent packet switching. Category: Inventor, Manager, 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 |
 | Donald Shell American computer scientist and creator of the Shell sort sorting algorithm. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Douglas Hofstadter American author, professor, and cognitive scientist. Category: Manager, Personality, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Douglas Ross Computer scientist pioneer who is known for the term CAD and as the father of APT. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Father, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edgar Codd English computer scientist and inventor of the relational model for database management. Category: Analyst, Coined, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edmund Berkeley Co-founder of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). Category: Founder, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, 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 |
 | Edsger Dijkstra Developer of ALGOL and the shortest path algorithm. Category: Editor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edward Feigenbaum Father of expert systems. Category: Father, Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edward Fredkin Inventor of the trie data structure, the fredkin gate, and Billiard-Ball Computer Model. Category: Inventor, Manager, 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 |
 | Edwin Belin English scientist and one of the early inventors of television. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Edwin Catmull Computer scientist and President of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios. Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Eiichi Goto Japanese computer scientist known for inventing one of the first general-purpose computers in Japan. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Elizabeth Feinler American information scientist and former director of the Network Information Systems Center. Category: Director, Female, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Enid Mumford British social scientist and computer scientist known for her work on human factors. Category: Female, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Feng-hsiung Hsu Computer scientist and author who helped with the creation of IBM Deep Blue chess machine. Category: Grandmaster, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Fernando Corbato Computer scientist and pioneer of time-sharing operating systems that helped inspire Unix and other operating systems. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Frances Allen American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Category: Female, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Francis Bacon Scientist, statesman, jurist, author, orator, and Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Frederick Brooks Software engineer and computer scientist known for managing the development of IBM's System/360. Category: Engineer, Manager, Scientist, 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 |
 | Gary Kildall American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who invented the CP/M operating system and gave Bill Gates the world. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Personality, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Gary Mcgraw American computer scientist and Internet technology author. Category: Manager, Personality, Scientist, Twitter, 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 |
 | Georg Ohm German physicist and mathematician best known for Ohm's law. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | George Dantzig Mathematical scientist best known for linear programming. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | George Necula Best known for his Ph.D. thesis work first describing proof-carrying code. Category: Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Georgy Adelson-velsky Soviet computer scientist who helped invent the AVL tree and the development of chess programming. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, 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 |
 | Glenn Ricart Computer scientist who help create the original Internet (ARPANET). Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Grace Hopper Female officer who extended the meaning of debug and is erroneously credited as coining the term bug. Category: Female, Inventor, Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Grady Booch American software engineer known for developing UML (Unified Modeling Language). Category: Engineer, Manager, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Greg Chesson American computer scientist and UNIX expert known as the godfather of Networking. Category: Engineer, Father, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Guy Steele Often referred to as The Great Quux. Category: Hacker, Manager, Programmer, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Harald Alvestrand Norwegian computer scientist and author of several important RFCs. Category: Chairman, Editor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Harold Cohen Painter, scholar, artist, and computer scientist who created AARON. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Harry Goode American statistician, mathematician, electrical and chemical engineer, professor, and author. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Helmut Schreyer German inventor, electrical engineer, and computer scientist known for his work on the Z3. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Herbert Freeman Computer scientist who made contributions to computer graphics. Category: Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Herbert Grosch Computer scientist best known for Grosch's law, which states economy is as the square root of the speed. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Herbert Simon Pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Herman Goldstine Mathematician and computer scientist who helped develop the ENIAC. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Hugh Loebner Sponsor of the Loebner Price. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, Writer, and sponsor |
 | Isaac Newton English mathematician and physicist known for Universal gravitation and Calculus. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ivan Sutherland Inventor of the Sketchpad and co-founder of Evans and Sutherland. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, 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 |
 | Jacob Ziv Israeli computer scientist who developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | James Clark American entrepreneur and founder of Netscape and Silicon Graphics. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | James Gosling Father of the Java programming language. Category: Father, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | James Gray Scientist best known his transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | James Thomas Computer scientist, visionary, and research and development leader in the field of computer graphics. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | James Wilkinson English scientist, mathematician, and discoverer of many significant algorithms. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jaron Lanier American computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author. Category: Composer, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jay Forrester Computer engineer who developed the aircraft flight simulator which later evolved to become the Whirlwind digital computer. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jean Ichbiah Designed the keyboard layout of FITALY. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jean Sammet American computer scientist who developed the FORMAC programming language. Category: Engineer, Female, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jeffrey Ullman Computer scientist, author, and professor at Stanford University. Category: Analyst, Founder, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jim Ellis Computer scientist who help create Usenet. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Johann Gauss German mathematician and physical scientist referred to as the Prince of Mathematicians. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Backus Directory of the team that created the first high-level programming language (FORTRAN). Category: Director, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Baird Scottish engineer who invented the world's first mechanical television. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Cocke Father of RISC architecture. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, 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 Hopcroft American theoretical computer scientist known for his textbooks on theory of computation. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Kemeny Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist and co-developer of the BASIC computer programming language. Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Mccarthy American computer scientist who coined the term artificial intelligence (AI) and created Lisp. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Nash American mathematician known for Nash equilibrium and Nash embedding theorem. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Neumann Helped developed von Neumann architecture. Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Pasta American computer scientist known for co-originating the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam experiment. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Shoch American computer scientist who helped develop PUP, an important predecessor of TCP/IP. Category: Investor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Warnock Co-founder of Adobe. Category: CEO, Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jonathan Postel American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet. Category: Editor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Joseph Canion American computer scientist and co-founder of Compaq Computer Corporation. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Joseph Henry American scientist who discovered the electromagnetic phenomenon of self-inductance. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Joseph Licklider Computer scientist who created the idea of a universal network, which led to invention of ARPANET and the Internet. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Joyce Reynolds Computer scientist who helped develop Internet protocols. Category: Editor, Female, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Juris Hartmanis Computer scientist, computational theorist, and former professor at Cornell University. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Justin Rattner Corporate vice president, chief technology officer (CTO) and director of Intel Labs. Category: Director, Manager, President, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Kapali Eswaran One of the founding members of the IBM System R Project, which formed the genesis of relational database technology. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Karen Jones Computer scientist who developed the concept of IDF (inverse document frequency). Category: Female, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Kenneth Iverson Canadian computer scientist noted for the development of the APL programming language in 1962. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, 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 |
 | Kristen Nygaard Computer scientist who developed SIMULA I and SIMULA-67 - the first object-oriented programming languages. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Larry Tesler American computer scientist and inventor of copy and paste. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Lars Rasmussen Danish-born computer scientist, software developer and co-founder of Google Maps. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Lawrence Rowe Computer scientist and founding director of the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC). Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Lee Mcmahon American computer scientist best known for his contributions to early versions of the Unix operating system. Category: Editor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Leonard Adleman Widely referred to as the Father of DNA Computing. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, and inventor. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Leonid Levin Soviet-American computer scientist known for his work in randomness in computing and algorithmic complexity. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Leslie Lamport American computer scientist best known as the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Lois Haibt Computer scientist known for being a member of the ten-person team at IBM that developed FORTRAN. Category: Female, Manager, Programmer, 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 |
 | Lynn Conway American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and inventor who invented the generalized dynamic instruction handling. Category: Engineer, Female, Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Manuel Blum Computer scientist known for his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Martin Campbell-kelly English computer scientist and historian. Category: Manager, Scientist, 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 |
 | Marvin Minsky Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and AI specialist. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Mary Jepsen Leader of the Display Division at Google X Lab and co-founder of One Laptop per Child. Category: Female, Founder, Manager, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Maurice Wilkes British computer scientist credited with several important developments in computing specifically microcomputing. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Michael Faraday English scientist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Michael Hawley Educator, scientist, artist, and researcher working in the field of digital media. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Researcher, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Michael Muuss Author of the freeware network tool ping which has been implemented on a large number of operating systems. Category: Hacker, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Michael Rabin Israeli computer scientist known for the Miller-Rabin primality test. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Michael Schroeder American computer scientist known for co-inventing the Needham-Schroeder authentication protocol. Category: Chairman, Director, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Michael Stonebraker Computer scientist, and one of the world's foremost experts in database technology. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Mike Bergman Web Scientist and 'deep web' researcher. Category: CEO, Editor, Founder, Manager, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Mike Lesk Computer scientist who helped develop Unix. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Mikhail Donskoy Soviet and Russian computer scientist known as a developer of a chess program, Kaissa. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Morgan Sparks American scientist and engineer who helped develop the microwatt bipolar junction transistor. Category: Engineer, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Nathaniel Borenstein American computer scientist and one of the original designers of the MIME protocol. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Nicholas Metropolis Greek American physicist and one of the scientists during the Manhattan Project. Category: Manager, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Niklaus Wirth Computer scientist who programmed the Pascal language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Nikola Tesla Inventor of AC (alternating current), and other inventions. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Nikolay Brusentsov Russian computer scientist known for building a ternary computer, Setun. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Noam Chomsky Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and historian. Category: Father, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Norman Abramson American computer scientist known for developing the ALOHAnet system for wireless communication. Category: Engineer, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Norman Margolus Canadian-American computer scientist and physicist. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Norman Nie American social scientist who invented software that automates data analysis. Category: Entrepreneur, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ole-johan Dahl Norwegian computer scientist considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming. Category: Father, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Paul Cress Canadian computer scientist who led a team of programmers developing Fortran language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Paul King Australian software developer, scientist, and entrepreneur. Category: Entrepreneur, Manager, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Paul Mockapetris American Internet pioneer and computer scientist and creator of the Internet Domain Name System. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Per Hansen Danish-American computer scientist known for concurrent programming theory. Category: Coined, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Bentley British author, computer scientist, and contributing editor for WIRED UK magazine. Category: Editor, Manager, Personality, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Chen American computer scientist known for development of the Entity-Relationship Model. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Denning American computer scientist and writer known for his pioneering work in virtual memory. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Kirstein British computer scientist who played a role in the creation of the Internet. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Landin British computer scientist who was first to realize that the lambda calculus could be used in programming. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Norvig Pioneer of information processing and artificial intelligence. Category: Director, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Samson American computer scientist known for creating pioneering computer software. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Peter Weinberger Computer scientist who helped write the AWK programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Philip Emeagwali Nigerian-born computer scientist known for his use of a Connection Machine supercomputer. Category: African American, Engineer, Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Quentin Staffordfraser British computer scientist who helped create the first webcam. Category: Manager, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ralph Griswold American computer scientist noted for his research into high-level programming languages and symbolic computation. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ramakrishnan Srikant Research scientist at Google with interest in data mining. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Raymond Boyce American computer scientist known for co-developing SQL database language. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Reed Hastings Computer scientist, entrepreneur, and co-founder and CEO of Netflix. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Crandall Chief Scientist at NeXT and Apple's Chief Cryptographer. Category: Manager, Physicist, Programmer, Scientist, 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 Hamming American mathematician and author who invented Hamming codes - computer error-detecting and correcting codes. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Karp Computer scientist and computational theorist known for his research in the theory of algorithms. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Lyon American scientist known for inventing the optical mouse. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Stearns Computer scientist who established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Cailliau Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who helped develop the World Wide Web. Category: Engineer, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Everett Named the MIT Whirlwind Project in 1945. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Fano Inventing (with Claude Shannon) Shannon-Fano coding. Category: Director, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Floyd Computer scientist who designed the Floyd-Warshall algorithm. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Morris Best known for creating the Morris Worm, the first Internet worm. Category: Convict, Father, Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Prim Computer scientist who developed two different algorithms for finding a minimum spanning tree in a weighted graph. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Tarjan American computer scientist who discovered several graph algorithms. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robin Milner British computer scientist who developed LCF, one of the first tools for automated theorem proving. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Roger Hui Computer scientist and co-developer of the J programming language and recipient of the Kenneth E. Iverson Award Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Roger Needham Computer scientist known for the BAN logic and Tiny Encryption algorithm. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ronald Stamper British computer scientist known for his work in organisational semiotics and as creator of the MEASUR methodology. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Rosalind Picard Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT. Category: Director, Female, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Professor, Scientist, Twitter, 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 |
 | Scott Fahlman First person to use a smiley emoticon. Category: Manager, 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 |
 | Seymour Papert MIT mathematician and educator and one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Simon Phipps And open source advocate and founder of IBM's Java Technology Center. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Stanley Frankel American computer scientist who designed the LGP-30 single-user desk computer in 1956. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Stanley Gill British computer scientist known for inventing the first computer subroutine. Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Stephen Cook American-Canadian computer scientist and mathematician and one of the forefathers of computational complexity theory. Category: Father, Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Stephen Robertson British computer scientist known for work on information retrieval and inverse document frequency. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Stephen Wolfram Founder of Wolfram|Alpha. Category: Founder, Manager, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Steve Kirsch American computer scientist and entrepreneur known for inventing the optical mouse. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Steve Russell Computer scientist who helped create Spacewar!, one of the earliest videogames. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Steven Bourne British computer scientist known for authoring the Bourne shell. Category: Manager, Mathematician, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Stuart Cheshire Senior Scientist at Apple Computer and author of Mac multi-player game Bolo who Pioneered Zeroconf networking. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, 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 |
 | Thomas Kurtz Co-developer of the BASIC computer programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Thomas Lane Computer scientist and open source software advocate. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Tim Roughgarden Computer scientist interested in analysis, design, applications of algorithms and game theory. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Tito Burattini Scientist, architect, Egyptologist, instrument-maker, traveller, engineer, and creator of the calculating machine. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Trevor Pearcey British-born Australian computer scientist who developed CSIRAC computer. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Valentin Turchin Soviet and American computer scientist and cybernetician who developed the Refal programming language. Category: Father, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Vint Cerf Father of the Internet. Category: Father, Founder, Manager, Personality, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Vladimir Levenshtein Russian scientist known for the Levenshtein algorithm, and the Levenshtein distance. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Wen Chow Chinese-born American digital computer pioneer and missile guidance scientist who pioneered the use of digital computers. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Werner Buchholz American computer scientist who coined the term byte for a unit of digital information. Category: Coined, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Willem Poel Testudo, PTERA, and the ZERO computers. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | William Inmon American computer scientist often referred to as the father of the data warehouse. Category: Coined, Father, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | William Joy Co-founder of Sun Microsystems, helped with the development of BSD, and original author of vi. Category: Editor, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Winifred Asprey American mathematician and computer scientist. Category: Female, Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Yukihiro Matsumoto Japanese computer scientist and software programmer known as the lead designer of the Ruby programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |