famous computer scientists
A list of (lots of) famous computer scientists.
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 | Allen, Francis (August 4, 1932) Pioneer in Compiler research and optimisation. | 🌐 |
 | Allen, Paul (January 21, 1953) He co-founded Microsoft alongside Bill Gates. | 🌐 |
 | Antonelli, Kay (12 February, 1921) American computer programmer and one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. | 🌐 |
 | Babbage, Charles (26 December, 1791) Babbage’s ‘Difference Engine’ was the Worlds first successful automatic calculator. | 🌐 |
 | Backus, John (December 3, 1924) Developed the first High Level programming language, FORTRAN, in the 1950s. | 🌐 |
 | Baer, Ralph (March 8, 1922) Baer is considered "the Father of Video Games" due to his many contributions to games and the video game industry in the latter half of the 20th century. | 🌐 |
 | Bartik, Jean (December 27, 1924) One of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer. | 🌐 |
 | Berners-Lee, Tim (8 June, 1955) Pioneer of the World Wide Web. | 🌐 |
 | Boole, George (2 November, 1815) Hand taught British mathematician, logician and philosopher. He worked at Queen's College on differentiation and algebraic logic. He is best known as the author of Laws of Thought in which he lays out his rules of Boolean Algebra. | 🌐 |
 | Booth, Kathleen (9 July, 1922) Wrote the first assembly language and designed the assembler and autocode for the first computer systems at Birkbeck College, University of London. | 🌐 |
 | Borg, Anita (January 17, 1949) American computer scientist. She founded the Institute for Women and Technology and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. | 🌐 |
 | Boyd Granville, Evelyn (May 1, 1924) One of the first African-American women to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics. Joined IBM in 1956 as a computer programmer, writing software programs for the IBM 650. At IBM's Aviation Space and Information division, Granville worked on various projects for NASA's Apollo space program. | 🌐 |
 | Braben, David (2 January, 1964) British game developer, game designer, founder and CEO of Frontier Developments plc, co-creator of the Elite series, space trading computer games, first published in 1984. | 🌐 |
 | Breazeal, Cynthia (November 15, 1967) Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is the director of the Personal Robots Group (formerly the DRobotic Life Group) at the MIT Media Laboratory. She is best known for her work in robotics where she is recognized as a pioneer of social robotics and human–robot interaction. | 🌐 |
 | Bricklin, Dan (July 16, 1951) Conceived and designed the first electronic spreadsheet, VISICALC, released in 1979. | 🌐 |
 | Brin, Sergey (August 21, 1973) Co-founder of Google. | 🌐 |
 | Bryant, Kimblery (January 14, 1967) Kimberly Bryant is an African American electrical engineer who worked in the biotechnology field at Genentech, Novartis Vaccines, Diagnostics, and Merck. In 2011, Bryant founded Black Girls Code, a training course that teaches basic programming concepts to black girls who are underrepresented in technology careers. | 🌐 |
 | Carmack, John (August 20, 1970) John D. Carmack is an American computer programmer, engineer, and businessman. | 🌐 |
 | Cerf, Vint (June 23, 1943) Father of the Internet, co-inventor of the TCP/IP stack and futurist. | 🌐 |
 | Chen, Peter (1947) Developed ‘Entity Relationship Modelling’ for relational database design. | 🌐 |
 | Clay, SR., Roy (1929) Worked as a computer programmer at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in California. Recruited in 1965 to set up Hewlett-Packard's computer development business, and led HP's first foray into the computer market with the 2116A Computer. | 🌐 |
 | Conway, Lynn (January 2, 1938) She worked at IBM in the 1960s and is credited with the invention of generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advance used in out-of-order execution, used by most modern computer processors to improve performance. | 🌐 |
 | Coombs, Mary (4 February, 1929) Recognised as being the first female commercial programmer, she was the first woman to work on the LEO computers. | 🌐 |
 | Cray, Seymour (September 28, 1925) Inventor of the Cray supercomputer. | 🌐 |
 | Dean, Mark (March 2, 1957) Co-creator of the IBM personal computer released in 1981, the colour PC monitor, the first gigahertz chip and the ISA bus architecture. | 🌐 |
 | Dijkstra, Edsger (11 May, 1930) Dutch systems scientist, programmer, software engineer, science essayist, and early pioneer in computing science. | 🌐 |
 | Easley, Annie (April 23, 1933) African-American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist. | 🌐 |
 | Ellis, Clarence (May 11, 1943) First African-American to earn a Ph.D. in computer science. Contributed to the development of the ILLIAC IV supercomputer, icon-based GUI and object-oriented programming languages. | 🌐 |
 | Feurzeig, Wally (June 10, 1927) Co-inventor, with Seymour Papert and Cynthia Solomon, of the programming language Logo, and a well-known researcher in artificial intelligence (AI). | 🌐 |
 | Flowers, Tommy (22 December, 1905) Designed the Colossus computer at Bletchley Park. | 🌐 |
 | Gates, Bill(October 28, 1955) Founder of Microsoft. | 🌐 |
 | Goldberg, Adele (July 22, 1945) Computer scientist who participated in developing the programming language Smalltalk-80 and various concepts related to object-oriented programming while a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), in the 1970s. | 🌐 |
 | Goldstine, Adele (December 21, 1920) A pioneer in the field of operating systems, Adele wrote the complete technical description of the first digital computer, ENIAC. | 🌐 |
 | Hall, John (7 August, 1950) Executive director of Linux International. | 🌐 |
 | Hamilton, Margaret (August 17, 1936) Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for the Apollo space program. | 🌐 |
 | Hoare, Charles (11 January, 1934) Inventor of the Quicksort algorithm. | 🌐 |
 | Holberton, Betty (March 7, 1917) One of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and was the inventor of breakpoints in computer debugging. | 🌐 |
 | Hopper, Grace (December 9, 1906) Co-developed the Harvard Mark I computer and found the first computer bug. | 🌐 |
 | Jobs, Steve (February 24, 1955) Co-founder of Apple Computer Inc, former CEO of Pixar and visionary behind the Mac, iPod, iPhone and iPad. | 🌐 |
 | Johnson, Katherine (August 26, 1918) Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson is an African-American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. manned spaceflights. | 🌐 |
 | Kahn, Bob (December 23, 1938) Co-inventor of the TCP/IP stack. | 🌐 |
 | Katz, Phil (November 3, 1962) Inventor of the Zip file format and the author of ‘PKZip’ compression software. | 🌐 |
 | Kenneth Keller, Mary (December 17, 1913) American Roman Catholic religious sister, educator and pioneer in computer science. She was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in computer science in the United States. | 🌐 |
 | Kilby, Jack (November 8, 1923) Co-inventor of the Integrated Circuit (Microchip) in 1958. Inventor of the handheld calculator and the Thermal Printer. | 🌐 |
 | Knuth, Donald (January 10, 1938) Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He designed the TeX typesetting system and wrote ‘The Art of Computer Programming’. | 🌐 |
 | Lamarr, Hedy (November 9, 1914) Actor and pioneer in the field of wireless communications. | 🌐 |
 | Lawson, Jerry (December 1, 1940) American electronic engineer, and one of the few African-American engineers in the industry at that time. | 🌐 |
 | Licklider, Joseph (March 11, 1915) ARPAnet developer. | 🌐 |
 | Liskov, Barbara (November 7, 1939) She was one of the first women to be granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States and is a Turing Award winner who developed the Liskov substitution principle. | 🌐 |
 | Lovelace, Ada (10 December, 1815) The first computer programmer. | 🌐 |
 | Marconi, Guglielmo (25 April, 1874) Inventor of the telegraph. | 🌐 |
 | Mauchly, John (August 30, 1907) American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States. | 🌐 |
 | Mayer, Marissa (May 30, 1975) American information technology executive, formerly serving as the president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! | 🌐 |
 | Meltzer, Marlyn (1922) One of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. | 🌐 |
 | Metcalfe, Robert (April 7, 1946) Development of computer networking and ethernet. | 🌐 |
 | Minskey, Marvin (August 9, 1927) Artificial intelligence pioneer. | 🌐 |
 | Moore, Gordon (January 3, 1929) Co-founder of Intel and protagonist of 'Moores Law'. | 🌐 |
 | Nakamura, Shuji (May 22, 1954) Inventor of the LED. | 🌐 |
 | Newell, Gabe (November 3, 1962) Credited by himself as the producer of the first three editions of Windows and now CEO of ‘Valve’ and 'Steam'. | 🌐 |
 | Noyce, Robert (December 12, 1927) Co-founder of Intel and co-inventor of the Integrated Circuit (Microchip) in 1958. | 🌐 |
 | Page, Larry (March 26, 1973) Co-founder of Google. | 🌐 |
 | Papert, Seymour (29 February, 1928) Artificial intelligence pioneer and inventor of Logo programming language. 10 Things to do with a Computer. | 🌐 |
 | Perlman, Radia (December 18, 1951) American computer programmer and network engineer. She is most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol (STP), which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges, while working for Digital Equipment Corporation. | 🌐 |
 | Postel, Jon (August 6, 1943) Administrator of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and editor of RFC (Request for Comment). | 🌐 |
 | Presper Eckert, John (April 9, 1919) John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert Jr. was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. | 🌐 |
 | Sammet, Jean (March 23, 1928) Developed the FORMAC programming language and was involved in the development of COBOL. | 🌐 |
 | Schneider Hoover, Erna (June 19, 1926) Invented the first electronic telephone switching method and filed one of the first every software patents. | 🌐 |
 | Sinclair, Clive (30 July, 1940) Inventor of the first electronic pocket calculator and founder of Sinclair microcomputers. | 🌐 |
 | Singh Kapany, Narinder (31 October, 1926) Invented the optical fibre. | 🌐 |
 | Solomon, Cynthia (1938) Pioneer in the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science and educational computing. Worked alongside Seymour Papert. | 🌐 |
 | Spärck Jones, Karen (26 August, 1935) British computer scientist who was responsible for the concept of inverse document frequency, a technology that underlies most modern search engines. | 🌐 |
 | Spence, Frances (March 2, 1922) One of the original programmers for the ENIAC (the first digital computer). She is considered one of the first computer programmers in history. | 🌐 |
 | Teitelbaum, Ruth (1924) One of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer and one of the first computer programmers in the world. | 🌐 |
 | Thompson, John Henry (June 15, 1959) Inventor of Lingo, a scripting language that renders visuals in computer software and former chief scientist at Macromedia. | 🌐 |
 | Torvalds, Linus (28 December, 1969) Finnish software engineer, chief architect of the Linux Kernel and Linux project coordinator. | 🌐 |
 | Turing, Alan (23 June, 1912) Father of modern computing. | 🌐 |
 | Upton, Eben (5 April, 1978) Eben Christopher Upton CBE is a British technical director and ASIC architect for Broadcom. He is also a founder and former trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and now CEO of Raspberry Pi Ltd. | 🌐 |
 | Vaughan, Dorothy (September 20, 1910) African American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and NASA, at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. | 🌐 |
 | Von Neumann, John (December 28, 1903) Father of the ‘Stored Program Concept’. | 🌐 |
 | Wales, Jimmy (August 7, 1966) Jimmy Donal Wales, also known by the online moniker Jimbo, is an American Internet entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia. | 🌐 |
 | West, Gladys (October 27, 1930) Gladys Mae West is an American mathematician known for her contributions to the mathematics underpinning Global Positioning Systems (GPS). | 🌐 |
 | Wilkes, Mary Allen (September 25, 1937) Conceptualised and developed the first operating system called ‘LINC’. Considered to be the first person to use a (self-built) home computer. | 🌐 |
 | Wilkes, Maurice (26 June, 1913) British computer scientist who designed and helped build the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator, one of the earliest stored program computers. | 🌐 |
 | Wilson, Sophie (June 1957) Wilson designed the Acorn Micro-Computer, the first of a long line of computers sold by Acorn Computers Ltd, including its programming language BBC BASIC. | 🌐 |
 | Wirth, Niklaus (15 February, 1934) Developed the Pascal programming language. | 🌐 |
 | Wozniak, Steve (August 11, 1950) American inventor, electronics engineer, programmer, philanthropist, and technology entrepreneur who co-founded Apple Computer, Inc. | 🌐 |
 | Zuckerberg, Mark (May 14, 1984) Founder of Facebook. | 🌐 |
 | Zuse, Konrad (22 June, 1910) Inventor of the first program controlled computer, the Z3. | 🌐 |
Last modified: April 22nd, 2022
