Computer People - D
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 'D'. Clicking on any of the below links will open a biography for that person.
 | Dabbala Reddy Indian American computer scientist and artificial intelligence pioneer. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Dale Dougherty Founder, President, and CEO of Maker Media and founder of MAKE Magazine. Category: CEO, Coined, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Dale Heatherington Co-founder Hayes Microcomputer Products, a US based manufacturer of modems. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Dan Bricklin Creator of VisiCalc. Category: Entrepreneur, Father, Founder, Manager, President, Writer, and X |
 | Dan Farmer American computer security researcher who created Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks (SATAN). Category: Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Dan Gillmor American technology writer, columnist, and teacher of digital media entrepreneurship. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Dan Gookin Author of the first for dummies books including DOS for Dummies. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Dan Kaminsky American security researcher and chief scientist of White Ops. Category: Hacker, Manager, Researcher, Scientist, Writer, and X |
 | Dan Kaufman Director of the Information Innovation Office at DARPA. Category: Director, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Dana Scott Professor of computer science, philosophy, and mathematical logic. Category: Editor, Manager, Professor, 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 |
 | Danah Boyd Social media scholar, youth researcher and advocate who works at Microsoft Research. Category: Female, Manager, Researcher, Writer, and X |
 | Danese Cooper Open source diva and American computer programmer. Category: Director, Female, Manager, Programmer, Scientist, Writer, and X |
 | Daniel Ek Swedish entrepreneur, founder and CEO of the music streaming service Spotify. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Daniel Friedman American computer scientist, author and programming language researcher. Category: Editor, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Researcher, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Daniel Hess American composer and video game sound designer. Category: Composer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Daniel Ingalls Pioneer of object-oriented computer programming. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Daniel Kottke Early Apple computer engineer who help assemble and test the first Apple I. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | 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 |
 | Dave Boggs American electrical and radio engineer who developed early Internet protocols. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Dave Raggett Developing HTTP, XHTML, and HTML. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Dave Winer American software developer, entrepreneur, and writer. Category: Editor, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Personality, Writer, and X |
 | David Bailey Senior scientist of Computational Research Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Baszucki Massively multiplayer online game, physics-based sandbox and user-generated content site. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | David Bradley Developer of the three finger salute. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | David Clark American computer scientist known for the Clark-Wilson model. Category: Chairman, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Crane Making games for the Atari 2600. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | David Culler Inventor of TinyOS. Category: Director, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Cutler Father of Windows NT. Category: Engineer, Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | David Deutsch British physicist who is known for the Quantum Turing machine. Category: Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | David Evans Founder of the computer science department at the University of Utah. Category: Founder, Manager, 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 Filo Co-founder of Yahoo!. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | David Hansson Danish computer programmer and creator of Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wiki. Category: Hacker, Manager, Programmer, Writer, and X |
 | David Hilbert German mathematician known for discovering invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry. Category: Founder, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | David Huffman Computer science pioneer known for his Huffman coding. Category: Inventor, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | David Karp American web developer and founder of blogging platform, Tumblr. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Personality, Writer, and X |
 | David Kravitz Software engineer and one of the original developers of Snapchat. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | David Lee Chinese-American business executive and inventor of the daisywheel printer. Category: CEO, Chairman, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | David Litchfield British computer security expert, database authority and author. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Hacker, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | David Morse Co-founder of Amiga. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | David Noble Historian, author, and professor of Social and Political Thought. Category: Inventor, Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | David Packard Co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard (HP) company. Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | David Parnas Pioneer of software engineering. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | David Patterson American computer pioneer who coined and contributed to RISC. Category: Coined, Manager, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | David Reed Known for his work with computer networking, TCP/IP, User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Multiversion concurrency control. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | David Smith Author of the Melissa virus that he released to the world in 1999. Category: Convict, Manager, and Writer |
 | David Warthen American technologist and co-founder of Ask Jeeves. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | David Wheeler First computer scientist who completed a PhD in computer science. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | David Wise British video game music composer known for his work on Nintendo's Donkey Kong Country series. Category: Composer, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | David Young American computer scientist and mathematician. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Dean Kamen Inventor of the Segway. Category: Entrepreneur, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Demis Hassabis British artificial intelligence researcher, neuroscientist, computer game designer and gamer. Category: Founder, Gamer, Manager, Programmer, Researcher, Scientist, Writer, and X |
 | Dennis Crowley American Internet entrepreneur known for co-founding Foursquare and Dodgeball. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Dennis Fong Entrepreneur and retired celebrity pro computer gamer. Category: Coined, Entrepreneur, Founder, Gamer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Dennis Hayes Founder of Hayes Microcomputer Products and inventor of the PC Modem. Category: Chairman, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Dennis Ritchie Creator of the C programming language and developer of UNIX. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Derek Gehl Internet marketing strategist, software developer, e-commerce columnist and seminar speaker. Category: Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Derrick Lehmer American mathematician. Category: Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Desiree Wrigley CEO and co-founder at GiveForward Inc. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Dick Costolo American businessman, entrepreneur, and CEO of Twitter. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Dimitri Bertsekas Applied mathematician and computer scientist known for Convex optimization and Approximate Dynamic Programming. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Dimitry Golubov Ukrainian hacker and founder of the Internet Party of Ukraine. Category: Convict, Founder, Hacker, Manager, Personality, Writer, and X |
 | 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, Writer, and X |
 | 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 Michie British researcher in artificial intelligence. Category: Founder, Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Donald Shell American computer scientist and creator of the Shell sort sorting algorithm. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Donn Parker Security researcher and consultant. Category: Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Donna Dubinsky American Businesswoman who helped with the development of PDAs at Palm. Category: CEO, Female, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Dorr Felt American inventor of the Comptometer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Douglas Crockford Influential American computer programmer. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Douglas Engelbart Inventor of the computer mouse. Category: Engineer, Hacker, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Douglas Hofstadter American author, professor, and cognitive scientist. Category: Manager, Personality, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Douglas Lenat Prominent researcher in artificial intelligence. Category: CEO, Manager, Researcher, 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 |
 | Dov Frohman Israeli electrical engineer and former vice president of Intel Corporation. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Dov Moran Israeli engineer known for founding the company who invented the DiskOnKey thumb drive. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Drew Houston American Internet entrepreneur known for founding the online backup service Dropbox. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Writer, and X |
 | Drew Major Co-founder of Novell and chief architect and developer of NetWare operating system. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Dries Buytaert Open-source software programmer known as founder and lead developer of the Drupal CMS (content management system). Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Writer, and X |
 | Dudley Buck Electrical engineer and inventor of computer components. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Dustin Moskovitz Co-founder of the social networking website Facebook. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
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