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: Manager, President, 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 |
 | Barrett Brown American activist, author, and founder of Project PM. Category: Convict, Director, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Barry Boehm American software engineer known for his many contributions to software engineering. Category: Director, Engineer, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Barry Lam Founder and Chairman of Quanta Computer. Category: Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, 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 |
 | Becky Worley American journalist and broadcaster best known for being TechLive's Computer Security Analyst. Category: Analyst, Female, Manager, Personality, Writer, and X |
 | Ben Forta Author and senior technical evangelist for Adobe Systems. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Ben Hammersley British Internet technologist, journalist, author, and broadcaster. Category: Editor, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Ben Shneiderman American computer scientist, and professor for Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ben Silbermann Co-founder and CEO of Pinterest. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Benjamin Franklin Author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, and much more. Category: Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Beny Alagem An Israeli American entrepreneur, developer, and the founder of Packard Bell Electronics. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, 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 |
 | Bernard Kardon American electrical engineer and co-founder of Harman/Kardon. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Bernd Fix German hacker known for his computer virus research. Category: Hacker, Manager, 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 |
 | Bertrand Meyer Author, and consultant who created the Eiffel programming language. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Bill Atkinson Computer engineer at Apple who help create MacPaint, QuickDraw, and HyperCard. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Bill Duvall Receiver of the first computer network communication, ARPANET. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Bill Gates Founder of Microsoft. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Programmer, Writer, and X |
 | Bill Gosper American mathematician and programmer and one of the founders of the hacker community with Richard Greenblatt. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Bill Kendrick American software developer known for creating and maintaining Tux Paint. Category: Editor, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Writer, and X |
 | Bill Moggridge British designer, author, and educator who designed one of the first laptop computer. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Bill Pytlovany Computer and network security program developer know as author of WinPatrol program. Category: Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Bjarne Stroustrup Computer scientist, known as the creator of the C++ computer programming language. Category: Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Blaise Pascal Mathematician, writer, child prodigy, and inventor of the Pascaline. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Blake Ross American software developer known for his work on the Mozilla web browser and for starting the Mozilla Firefox project. Category: Director, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Bob Bates American computer games designer. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Bob Bemer Father of ASCII, escape character, backslash, and the curly bracket. Category: Coined, Father, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Bob Evans Computer pioneer and corporate executive at IBM. Category: Chairman, Manager, and Writer |
 | Bob Kahn Internet pioneer, engineer, and computer scientist who helped develop TCP/IP. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bob Rosenschein American-Israeli Internet entrepreneur and founder of Answers.com. Category: CEO, Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Bob Wallace American computer scientist, software pioneer and Microsoft's ninth employee. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Bonnie Ross General manager at Microsoft Game Studios and studio head of 343 Industries. Category: Female, Manager, and Writer |
 | Boris Babayan Pioneering creator of supercomputers in Soviet Union. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Borje Langefors Swedish engineer and computer scientist who made systems development a science. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Brad Fitzpatrick Creator of LiveJournal and author of various free software projects such as OpenID and memcached. Category: Manager, Programmer, Writer, and X |
 | Brad Templeton Software Architect and early pioneer of Usenet. Category: Chairman, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Writer, and X |
 | Bram Cohen Author of the P2P BitTorrent protocol. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Programmer, Writer, and X |
 | Brendan Eich Software developer and creator of JavaScript. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Brian Carpenter British Internet engineer and former chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Brian Eno Creator of the six-second start-up music sound of the Windows 95 operating system and the Prophecy Theme in the film Dune. Category: Composer, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Brian Fargo American video game designer, producer, programmer, executive, and founder of developers Interplay Entertainment. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Brian Fox Entrepreneur, free software supporter, and original author of the GNU Bash shell. Category: African American, Entrepreneur, Manager, 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, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Brian Moriarty American video game developer. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Brian Reynolds American videogame designer known for his online social games on Facebook. Category: CEO, Chairman, Director, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Writer, and X |
 | Brian Tong Former host and senior editor for CNET TV's the Apple Byte, Prizefight, Tap That App & How-To's. Category: Editor, Manager, Personality, Writer, and X |
 | Bruce Eckel Author and lecturer who has written numerous books and articles on computer programming. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, Writer, and X |
 | Bruce Schneier American computer security specialist, cryptographer, and writer. Category: Founder, Manager, Researcher, Writer, and X |
 | Burton Smith Computer architect who has made major contributions to the field of parallel computation. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Butler Lampson Computer scientist who help with the development of the first personal computer. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
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