Computer People - R
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 'R'. Clicking on any of the below links will open a biography for that person.
 | Radia Perlman Mother of the Internet. Category: Engineer, Female, Inventor, and Writer |
 | Rahul Sood Founder of VoodooPC and former Chief Technology Officer for HP Global Voodoo Business Unit. Category: CEO, Founder, Manager, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Rajeev Sangal Professor and author Known for his work in processing of human languages in Computational Paninian Grammar (CPG) framework. Category: Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Rajiv Gupta Prior General Manager at Hewlett Packard and co-inventor of Hewlett Packard's E-speak project (1999). Category: CEO, Founder, Inventor, Manager, and Writer |
 | Ralph Baer Father of Videogames. Category: Engineer, Father, Inventor, and Writer |
 | Ralph Griswold American computer scientist noted for his research into high-level programming languages and symbolic computation. Category: Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ralph Meagher Culminating with the ILLIAC IV supercomputer, the largest and fastest in the world. Category: Writer |
 | Ralph Merkle One of the inventors of public key cryptography and Inventor of cryptographic hashing Category: Inventor, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Ralph Palmer Helped create the IBM 604 Electronic Calculator. Category: Inventor and Writer |
 | Ralph Slutz Physicist and computer pioneer and one of the first to build a computer with a central memory to store and modify data and instructions Category: Inventor, Physicist, and Writer |
 | Ramakrishnan Srikant Research scientist at Google with interest in data mining. Category: Inventor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Ramanathan Guha Co-leaders of the AI Cyc project. Category: Writer |
 | Ramon Llull Poet, theologian, mystic, mathematician, logician, and martyr who is referred to as a pioneer of computation theory. Category: Logician, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Randy Eisenman Founded Satori Capital and Handango in 1999 where he served as president and chief executive officer Category: Founder, President, and Writer |
 | Randy Pausch American professor of computer science and human computer interaction at CMU. Category: Founder, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | Randy Wigginton Programmer and one of Apple Computer's first employee number 6. Category: Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ransom Love Co-founder of the late Caldera company. Category: Founder and Writer |
 | Rasmus Lerdorf Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship best known as the creator of the PHP scripting language. Category: Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ray Ozzie American software industry entrepreneur and Chief Technical Officer at Microsoft. Category: Entrepreneur, Inventor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ray Tomlinson American programmer who implemented an email system on the ARPANET. Category: Personality, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Raymond Boyce American computer scientist known for co-developing SQL database language. Category: Scientist and Writer |
 | Raymond Holt Pioneering computer designer and businessman in Silicon Valley Developed the first microprocessor chip set for F-14 Tomcat Category: Founder and Writer |
 | Raymond Kurzweil American author, futurist, and inventor of the Kurzweil K250 music keyboard. Category: Inventor and Writer |
 | Raymond Noorda American computer businessman and CEO of Novell from the years (1982-1994). Category: CEO and Writer |
 | Reed Hastings Computer scientist, entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of Netflix. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Regina Dugan 19th (and first woman) Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Category: CEO, Director, Engineer, Female, Founder, Inventor, Manager, President, and Writer |
 | Reid Hoffman American entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author known as the co-founder of LinkedIn Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Rene Descartes French philosopher, mathematician, and writer dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy' Category: Father, Mathematician, and Writer |
 | Rene Grillet French mechanic and watchmaker and one of the creators of a mechanical calculating machine (17th Century). Category: Inventor and Writer |
 | Renukanth Subramaniam British Hacker and founder of DarkMarket, Internet cybercrime forum. Category: Convict, Founder, Hacker, and Writer |
 | Reynold Johnson Inventor of the disk drive and videocassette tape. Category: Father, Inventor, President, and Writer |
 | Richard Arkwright Englishman who is often credited with inventing the spinning frame and creator of the modern factory system. Category: Entrepreneur, Inventor, and Writer |
 | Richard Branson English business magnate and investor and founder of Virgin Group. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, Investor, President, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Richard Brodie Author Original creator of Microsoft Word. Category: Founder, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Richard Canning EDP Analyzer. Category: Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Richard Crandall Chief Scientist at NeXT Inc. and Apple's Chief Cryptographer Category: Physicist, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Feynman American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics Category: Physicist, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Greenblatt American computer programmer and one of the founders of the hacker community along with Bill Gosper. Category: Founder, Hacker, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Richard Hamming American mathematician and author who invented Hamming codes - computer error-detecting and correcting codes. Category: Founder, Inventor, Mathematician, President, Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Harper British Sociologist and principle researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. Category: Professor, Researcher, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Richard Karp Computer scientist and computational theorist known for his research in the theory of algorithms. Category: Scientist and Writer |
 | Richard Lyon American scientist known for inventing the optical mouse. Category: Engineer, Founder, Inventor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Richard Mason Consultant, and author, Known for his work in ethics of information and the history of information systems in organizations. Category: Professor and Writer |
 | Richard Schulze Founder and past chairman of Best Buy. Category: Chairman, Founder, and Writer |
 | Richard Skrenta Computer programmer and creator of search engine blekko. Category: Entrepreneur, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Richard Stallman American software freedom activist and computer programmer who launched the GNU project. Category: Founder, Inventor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Richard Stearns Computer scientist who established the foundations for the field of computational complexity theory. Category: Scientist and Writer |
 | Richard Yoo American entrepreneur and founder of web hosting company Rackspace. Category: CEO, Entrepreneur, Founder, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Rob Auten Author of video games including Battlefield: Hardline and Gears of War: Judgement Category: Twitter and Writer |
 | Rob Barnaby Computer programmer, author and developer of the word processor Wordstar. Category: Programmer and Writer |
 | Rob Hartill Web designer and computer programmer Known for his work on the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) website. Category: Programmer and Writer |
 | Rob Kalin Online handmade and vintage marketplace founded in the year 2005. Category: Founder, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Robert Adler Austrian-born American inventor with numerous patents, most notably the wireless remote control. Category: Inventor and Writer |
 | Robert Barton Known as the chief architect of the Burroughs B5000 and other computers such as the B1700 as well as the co-inventor of dataflow. Category: Inventor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Robert Cailliau Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist who helped develop the World Wide Web. Category: Engineer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Cohn Company that commercialized voice mail. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, and Writer |
 | Robert Dennard Inventor of DRAM. Category: Engineer, Inventor, and Writer |
 | Robert Enderle American technology analyst and labeled as the most quoted technology analysts in the media. Category: Analyst, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Robert Everett Named the MIT Whirlwind Project in 1945. Category: Scientist and Writer |
 | Robert Fano Inventing (with Claude Shannon) Shannon-Fano coding. Category: Director, Founder, Inventor, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Floyd Computer scientist who designed the Floyd-Warshall algorithm. Category: Scientist and Writer |
 | Robert Frankston Co-creator of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program. Category: Founder and Writer |
 | Robert Gentleman Canadian statistician known as one of the creators of the R (programming language). Category: Director, Professor, Programmer, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Robert Griesemer Computer programmer who works at Google and one of the first designers of the Go programming language. Category: Programmer and Writer |
 | Robert Hooke English natural philosopher, architect, and polymath. Category: Inventor and Writer |
 | Robert Lansdown British computer graphics pioneer and Polymath and Professor Emeritus at Middlesex University Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts Category: Professor and Writer |
 | Robert Martin Consulting firm that specializes in training clients in Java, C++, OOP. Category: Editor, Founder, Programmer, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Robert Metcalfe Founder of 3Com. Category: Coined, Founder, Hacker, and Writer |
 | Robert Miner Co-founder of Oracle Corporation and developer of its relational database management system. Category: Founder and Writer |
 | Robert Moog American pioneer of electronic music who is best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer. Category: Inventor and Writer |
 | Robert Morris Best known for creating the Morris Worm, the first Internet worm. Category: Convict, Father, Founder, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Noyce Inventor of the integrated circuit and co-founder of Intel. Category: Founder, Inventor, and Writer |
 | Robert Patrick Architect of the first operating system in the world, GM-NAA I/O. Category: Inventor and Writer |
 | Robert Pike Canadian software engineer and author known for his work with Plan 9 at Bell Labs. Category: Editor, Engineer, Inventor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Robert Prim American mathematician and computer scientist who developed two different algorithms for finding a minimum spanning tree in a weighted graph Category: Mathematician, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Scoble American blogger, author, and technical evangelist who runs Scobleizer. Category: Twitter, Writer, and sponsor |
 | Robert Stein Computer pioneer who founded the Voyager Company. Category: Founder and Writer |
 | Robert Tarjan American computer scientist who discovered several graph algorithms. Category: Inventor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Robert Taylor Internet Pioneer and Director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office from 1965 through 1969. Category: Director, Founder, Manager, and Writer |
 | Roberta Williams American video game creator and designer and co-founder of Sierra Entertainment. Category: Female, Founder, and Writer |
 | Robin Milner British computer scientist who developed LCF, one of the first tools for automated theorem proving. Category: Scientist and Writer |
 | Roger Hui Computer scientist and Co-developer of the J Programming Language and recipient of the Kenneth E. Iverson Award Category: Programmer, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Roger Moore Professor of spoken language processing in the Speech and Hearing Research Group at the University of Sheffield Category: Professor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Roger Needham Computer scientist known for the BAN logic and Tiny Encryption algorithm. Category: Inventor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Roger Sippl Entrepreneur, and innovator who founded Informix Software and pioneered SQL relational databases. Category: Entrepreneur, Founder, 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, Professor, and Writer |
 | Ronald Schafer American electrical engineer known for his work with signal processing. Category: Editor, Engineer, President, Professor, and Writer |
 | Ronald Stamper British computer scientist Known for his work in Organisational semiotics and as creator of the MEASUR methodology. Category: Scientist and Writer |
 | Ronald Wayne American electronics industry worker and co-founded Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Category: Founder, Inventor, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Rosalind Picard Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT. Category: Director, Female, Founder, Inventor, Professor, Scientist, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ross Ihaka Associate Professor of Statistics and one of the creators of the R programming language. Category: Professor, Programmer, and Writer |
 | Ross Ulbricht Founder of the online black market Silk Road. Category: Convict, Founder, and Writer |
 | Rudolf Bayer UB-tree, and the red-black tree. Category: Inventor, Professor, Scientist, and Writer |
 | Rudolf Hell Early forerunner to the fax machine. Category: Inventor and Writer |
 | Russel Ackoff Systems thinking and management science Category: Manager and Writer |
 | Russell Ohl American engineer known for patenting the modern solar cell and researching semiconductors. Category: Engineer, Inventor, Researcher, and Writer |
 | Ryan Block Technology journalist, critic, former editor of Engadget, and co-founder of gdgt. Category: Editor, Founder, Twitter, and Writer |
 | Ryan Shrout Founder, owner, operator and editor-in-chief of PC Perspective. Category: Editor, Founder, Personality, Twitter, and Writer |
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