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Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
Brian Schmidt
American-born Australian astrophysicist
Gregg L. Semenza
American physician and university teacher, Nobel laureate in Medicine, author of many retracted papers
Jawed Karim
American co-founder of YouTube (born 1979)
Katie Bouman
American engineer and computer scientist
Michael Spence
American economist (born 1943)
Michael W. Young
American geneticist, chronobiologist
Michael Rosbash
American geneticist and chronobiologist
Frances Allen
American computer scientist (1932–2020)
Temple Grandin
American doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist
Alexey Pajitnov
Russian video game designer (born 1955)
Fred Brooks
American computer scientist (1931–2022); author of The Mythical Man-Month and 'No Silver Bullet' (1986), which distinguished essential from accidental complexity in software engineering
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
Ivan Sutherland
American computer scientist and Internet pioneer
Anita Borg
American computer scientist (1949-2003)
Bob Kahn
American Internet pioneer, computer scientist (born 1938)
Charles Bachman
American computer scientist (1924–2017)
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
António Damásio
neuroscientist and professor at the University of Southern California (born 1944)
Ron Rivest
American cryptographer
Douglas Hofstadter
American physicist, computer scientist and professor of cognitive science
Dana Scott
American mathematician and computer scientist
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American computer scientist (1945–2020)
Richard M. Karp
American theoretical computer scientist (b.1935)
Lynn Conway
American computer scientist and electrical engineer (1938–2024)
Manuel Blum
Venezuelan computer scientist
Leonard Adleman
American computer scientist
Fei-Fei Li
American computer scientist
Jean Bartik
American ENIAC computer programmer (1924–2011)
Avi Wigderson
Israeli mathematician and computer scientist
Judea Pearl
Israeli-American computer scientist (born 1936)
Susan Solomon
American atmospheric chemist
Butler Lampson
American computer scientist (born 1943)
Leonard Kleinrock
American computer scientist (born 1934)
Andrew Yao
computer scientist and computational theorist
John Edward Hopcroft
American computer scientist
Esther Lederberg
American microbiologist and pioneer of bacterial genetics (1922–2006)
John L. Hennessy
American computer scientist (born 1952)
Peter Shor
American professor of applied mathematics at MIT
Adele Goldberg
American computer scientist (born 1945)
Omowunmi Sadik
Nigerian professor, chemist, and inventor
Lex Fridman
Community Class speaker at MIT, working on human-centered AI and podcaster
Yi-Fu Tuan
Chinese-American geographer (1930-2022)
Paul Sereno
American paleontologist (born 1957)
Bruce Perens
American computer scientist
David A. Patterson
American computer scientist
Joycelyn Elders
American pediatrician, public health administrator, and former Surgeon General of the United States
Eugenie Scott
American anthropologist
Kai-Fu Lee
Taiwanese businessman
Gordon Bell
American computer engineer (1934–2024)
Michael Stonebraker
American computer scientist (born 1943)
Christos Papadimitriou
Greek computer scientist (b. 1949)
Eugenie Clark
American ichthyologist (1922–2015)
Ruzena Bajcsy
American computer scientist
Joy Buolamwini
American computer scientist and digital activist
Neil Shubin
American paleontologist (born 1960)
Nancy Lynch
American computer scientist
Kim M. Cobb
American climate scientist and academic (1974-)
Valerie Aurora
American computer scientist and activist
Daniel Lewin
American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur