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John von Neumann
Hungarian and American mathematician and physicist (1903–1957)
Larry Page
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur (born 1973)
Steve Wozniak
American computer pioneer, inventor, computer engineer and programmer; co-founder of Apple Inc.
Sergey Brin
American billionaire businessman (born 1973)
Donald Knuth
American computer scientist and mathematician (born 1938)
Dennis M. Ritchie
American computer scientist, co-inventor of the Unix operating system and the C programming language
Grace Hopper
American computer scientist and United States Navy officer (1906–1992)
Katherine Johnson
African-American mathematician
John McCarthy
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist (1927-2011)
Marvin Minsky
American cognitive scientist (1927-2016)
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American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
Vint Cerf
American computer scientist (born 1943)
Margaret Hamilton
American NASA scientist and mathematician
Liu Gang
Chinese scientist and revolutionary (born 1961)
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
American-Dutch computer scientist
Barbara Liskov
American computer scientist
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
Marissa Mayer
American business executive and engineer, former CEO of Yahoo!
Subhash Kak
Indian computer scientist
Robert Metcalfe
American electrical engineer
Jawed Karim
American co-founder of YouTube (born 1979)
Katie Bouman
American engineer and computer scientist
Lotfi A. Zadeh
American electrical engineer and computer scientist (1921–2017)
Frances Allen
American computer scientist (1932–2020)
Alan Perlis
American computer scientist (1922–1990)
Randy Pausch
American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
Leslie Lamport
American computer scientist
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
Seymour Papert
MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator (1928–2016)
Stephen Wolfram
British-American scientist and businessman (born 1959)
Ivan Sutherland
American computer scientist and Internet pioneer
Shafrira Goldwasser
American computer scientist
Anita Borg
American computer scientist (1949-2003)
Charles Simonyi
Hungarian-American computer software executive (born 1948)
George Bernard Dantzig
American mathematician (1914-2005)
Bob Kahn
American Internet pioneer, computer scientist (born 1938)
Charles Bachman
American computer scientist (1924–2017)
Jaron Lanier
American computer scientist, musician, and author
Vernor Vinge
American mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer (1944–2024)
Gladys West
American mathematician (1930–2026)
John George Kemeny
Jewish-Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, educator, and President of Dartmouth College
László Lovász
Hungarian mathematician
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American computer scientist (1945–2020)
Nicholas Negroponte
American computer scientist (born 1943)
Dana Scott
American mathematician and computer scientist
Dorothy Vaughan
African-American mathematician
Lynn Conway
American computer scientist and electrical engineer (1938–2024)
Gary Kildall
American computer scientist and entrepreneur (1942–1994)
Manuel Blum
Venezuelan computer scientist
Stephen Cole Kleene
American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist (1909–1994)
Bill Joy
American computer scientist
Fei-Fei Li
American computer scientist
Raj Reddy
Indian-American computer scientist
Judea Pearl
Israeli-American computer scientist (born 1936)
Jean Bartik
American ENIAC computer programmer (1924–2011)
Kathleen Antonelli
Irish computer programmer (1921-2006)
Jef Raskin
American computer interface expert (1943-2005)
Jim Gray
American computer scientist (1944–2007/2012)
Edwin Catmull
American computer scientist and former president of Pixar (born 1945)
Leonard Kleinrock
American computer scientist (born 1934)