Computer People - J
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 'J'. Clicking on any of the below links will open a biography for that person.
 | Jack Dennis Computer scientist and retired MIT professor who help develop the Multics project. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Professor, Scientist, Writer, and sponsor |
 | Jack Dorsey Creator of Twitter and founder of Square. Category: CEO, Founder, Inventor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jack Kilby Inventor of the integrated circuit, microchip, and the thermal printer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jack Ma Chinese entrepreneur and executive chairman of Alibaba Group. Category: Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jack Tramiel Founder of Commodore International. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jack Tretton Former President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Jack Wolf American researcher in information theory and coding theory. Category: Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Jacob Auch Instrument, clock-maker, and author of Handbuch für Landuhrmacher. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Jacob Ziv Israeli computer scientist who developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jagadish Bose Indian pioneer who investigated the radio and microwave optics and made a significant contribution to plant science. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Jake Lodwick American software engineer best known for co-founding Vimeo. Category: CEO, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jake Winebaum American entrepreneur and founder of FamilyFun magazine, Business.com, and Brighter.com. Category: Chairman, Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jakob Nielsen Computer engineer and web usability consultant. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | James Bryce Supervising engineer of the division that developed time recording machines. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | James Burke British broadcaster, author, futurist, and science historian. Category: Father, Founder, Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | James Clark American entrepreneur and founder of Netscape and Silicon Graphics. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | James Foley Co-author of several widely-used textbooks in the field of computer graphics. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | James Goodnight CEO of SAS Institute software company. Category: CEO, Manager, 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 Martin Father of Computer Aided Systems Engineering (CASE). Category: Father, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | James Pomerene Electrical engineer and computer pioneer who helped build a parallel stored program computer. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | James Rand American industrialist who revolutionized the business record industry and founded American Kardex. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | James Ready American businessman and technologist and founder of MontaVista Software. Category: Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | James Russell Inventor of the digital compact disc. Category: Inventor, Manager, 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 |
 | Jan Koum American computer engineer and Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of WhatsApp. Category: CEO, Director, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Hacker, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jan Rajchman American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jane Jensen American game designer and writer known for the Gabriel Knight adventure games. Category: Director, Father, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jane Moran Global CIO of consumer goods manufacturer Unilever. Category: Female, Manager, and Writer |
 | Janus Friis Danish entrepreneur and co-founder of Skype and KaZaA. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jarkko Oikarinen Initial developer of IRC. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Jaron Lanier American computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and author. Category: Composer, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jason Scott American archivist, filmmaker and technology historian. Category: Director, Editor, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jason Shellen Thing Labs and developed Blogger. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jawed Karim Co-founder of YouTube. Category: Founder, Manager, 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 |
 | Jay Miner Father of the Amiga. Category: Father, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jean Bartik One of the world's first computers and computer programmers. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Jean Fourier Known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their applications of heat transfers and vibrations. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Jean Hoerni Silicon transistor pioneer. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, 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 |
 | Jeanmauriceemile Baudot French telegraph engineer who invented the Baudot Code. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jef Raskin Known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Jeff Bezos Founder, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of Amazon. Category: CEO, Chairman, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Jeff Hawkins Founder of Palm and author of On Intelligence. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jeff Taylor American Internet entrepreneur and founder of the online job site Monster.com. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jeffrey Chu Computer engineer who's team designed the first American electronic computer, the ENIAC. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jeffrey Parson Creator of the B variant of the Blaster worm. Category: Convict, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jeffrey Raikes Chief executive officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Jeffrey Skoll Canadian engineer and Internet entrepreneur known for being the first employee and president of eBay. Category: Chairman, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jeffrey Ullman Computer scientist, author, and professor at Stanford University. Category: Analyst, Founder, Manager, Professor, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jen-hsun Huang Taiwanese-American entrepreneur and co-founder of Nvidia. Category: CEO, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Jenni Flinders American born vice president of the U.S. Partner Group at Microsoft. Category: Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jennifer Pahlka Founder and Executive Director of Code for America and U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer. Category: Director, Female, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jeremy Stoppelman Co-founder and CEO of Yelp. Category: CEO, Director, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jeri Ellsworth American self-taught computer chip designer and entrepreneur. Category: Entrepreneur, Female, Hacker, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jerry Sanders Founder and former CEO of AMD. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jerry Shen Entrepreneur and creator of fantasy sports app Bignoggins. Category: Director, Entrepreneur, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jerry Yang Co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Category: CEO, Director, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jim Aspnes Professor in Computer Science at Yale University and creator of TinyMUD. Category: Manager, Professor, and Writer |
 | Jim Ellis Computer scientist who help create Usenet. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jim Hall Computer programmer and advocate for free software known for his work on FreeDOS. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jimmy Wales American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and promoter of Wikipedia. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Joe Belfiore Corporate vice president of Operating Systems Group and Windows Phone at Microsoft. Category: Founder, Manager, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Joe Ossanna Electrical engineer and computer programmer known for his work with Unix operation system. Category: Engineer, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Johann Bischoff Architect and planning director to the court who authored an account of the history of computing tools and methods (1804). Category: Director, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Johann Gauss German mathematician and physical scientist called the Prince of Mathematicians. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Johannes Gutenberg 15th century inventor who revolutionized typography. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Johannes Kepler German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | John Atanasoff Inventor of the first digital computer. Category: Inventor, Manager, 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 Bardeen Co-inventor of the transistor. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, and Writer |
 | John Barlow American poet, essayist, and founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Category: Founder, Manager, 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 Carmack American game programmer and founder of Id Software. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Chambers Chairman of the board and CEO of Cisco. Category: CEO, Chairman, Director, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | John Cocke Father of RISC architecture. Category: Father, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Collison Irish student and Internet entrepreneur known for co-founding Stripe. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, Twitter, 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 Diebold Consultant and writer who championed the widespread use of computing and automated technology. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | John Doerr American venture capitalist widely regarded as one of the top technology venture capitalists in the world. Category: Investor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Draper Programmer phone phreak. Category: Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | John Dvorak American columnist and broadcasters in the areas of technology and computing. Category: Editor, Manager, Personality, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Eckert Electrical engineer and computer pioneer who help invent the ENIAC and UNIVAC. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Manager, 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 Fleming Inventor of the first vacuum tube and diode. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, 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 Hollar President and CEO of the Computer History Museum. Category: CEO, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | John Hopcroft American theoretical computer scientist known for his textbooks on theory of computation. Category: Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Impagliazzo Historian, author, and professor of the computing sciences. Category: Editor, Manager, Professor, 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 Markoff New York Times journalist and author of Takedown book about Kevin Mitnick. Category: Editor, Hacker, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Mauchly American physicist who helped develop the ENIAC, EDVAC, BINAC, and UNIVAC I. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Physicist, Programmer, and Writer |
 | John Mcafee American computer programmer and founder of McAfee and one of the first to design antivirus software. Category: Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, 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 Napier Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and inventor of Napier's bones. Category: Inventor, Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, 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 Opel Computer businessman who served as the president of IBM. Category: CEO, Chairman, Manager, President, 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 |
 | John Pasta American computer scientist known for co-originating the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam experiment. Category: Manager, Mathematician, Physicist, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Pavlik American academic and author who publishes on new media, journalism, and health communication. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | John Pinkerton British pioneer computer designer. Category: Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | John Resig Computer programmer and entrepreneur known as the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library. Category: Entrepreneur, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Romero Co-founder of id Software and designer for many of their games, including Wolfenstein 3D, Dangerous Dave, Doom, and Quake. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Sall Co-founder and executive vice president of SAS Institute. Category: Founder, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | John Scully Former CEO of Apple between 1977 and 1983. Category: CEO, Coined, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | John Shedletsky American game developer and designer and former creative director at ROBLOX. Category: Director, Engineer, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Shoch American computer scientist who helped develop PUP, an important predecessor of TCP/IP. Category: Investor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | John Thomson Former vice president at IBM and former CEO of Symantec. Category: African American, CEO, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | John Tukey American statistician best known for the development of the FFT algorithm and box plot. Category: Manager and Writer |
 | John Vittal Computer programmer who's credited with transforming the old e-mail system into the highly user-friendly tool. Category: Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | John Walker Computer programmer and founder of Autodesk and co-author of AutoCAD. Category: Founder, Hacker, Manager, Programmer, and Writer |
 | John Warnock Co-founder of Adobe. Category: CEO, Chairman, Entrepreneur, Founder, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Johnathan Wendel Considered to be the world's first prominent and accomplished professional computer gamer. Category: Founder, Gamer, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jolie Odell Internet personality known for her blog and writing work with Mashable and VentureBeat. Category: Female, Manager, Personality, and Writer |
 | Jon Hall Executive director of Linux International. Category: Director, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jon Kraft Co-founder, and CEO of Pandora Media. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jon Radoff American author, entrepreneur, and game designer. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Gamer, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jon Tetzchner Founder and former CEO of Opera Software who left company in the year 2011. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Jonathan Blow American independent videogame developer and creator of the game Braid. Category: Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Jonathan Ive English designer and the former senior vice president of industrial design at Apple Inc. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Jonathan Postel American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet. Category: Editor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Jorma Rissanen IBM researcher known for inventing the arithmetic coding technique of lossless data compression. Category: Inventor, Manager, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Joseph Canion American computer scientist and co-founder of Compaq Computer Corporation. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, President, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Joseph Clement British engineer and designer of the first calculating device. Category: Engineer, Manager, and Writer |
 | Joseph Henry American scientist who discovered the electromagnetic phenomenon of self-inductance. Category: Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Joseph Jacquard Developer of the earliest programmable loom, the Jacquard Loom. Category: Inventor, Manager, 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 |
 | Joseph Niepce French inventor most well known for taking the first known photograph. Category: Inventor, Manager, 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 |
 | Joshua Lederberg American molecular biologist known for his work in microbial genetics, artificial intelligence, and the US space program. Category: Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Joshua Schachter Creator of Delicious, GeoURL, and co-creator of Memepool. Category: Investor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Joyce Reynolds Computer scientist who helped develop Internet protocols. Category: Editor, Female, Manager, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Julian Assange Editor, activist, computer programmer, and hacker best known as the founder of WikiLeaks. Category: Editor, Founder, Hacker, Inventor, Manager, Personality, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Julian Bigelow American computer engineer known for designing one of the first computers, the IAS. Category: Engineer, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Juris Hartmanis Computer scientist, computational theorist, and former professor at Cornell University. Category: Manager, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Justin Frankel American computer programmer best known for his work on the Winamp media player application. Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Justin Kan American Internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Justin.tv and TwitchTV. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Justin Rattner Corporate vice president, chief technology officer (CTO) and director of Intel Labs. Category: Director, Manager, President, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Justine Ezarik American Internet personality, lifecaster, and viral video comedian. Category: Female, Manager, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
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