Category
page 1Turing Award laureates
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist (born 1955)
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
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Dutch computer scientist (1930–2002)
Douglas Engelbart
American engineer and inventor (1925–2013)
Herbert Simon
American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist (1916–2001)
John McCarthy
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist (1927-2011)
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian computer scientist and psychologist
Marvin Minsky
American cognitive scientist (1927-2016)
Ken Thompson
American programmer and computer scientist, co-creator of the Unix operating system (born 1943)
Niklaus Wirth
Swiss computer scientist (1934–2024)
Vint Cerf
American computer scientist (born 1943)
John Backus
American computer scientist (1924–2007)
Barbara Liskov
American computer scientist
Alan Kay
American computer scientist (born 1940)
Robert Metcalfe
American electrical engineer
Edgar F. Codd
English computer scientist (1923–2003)
Tony Hoare
British computer scientist
Frances Allen
American computer scientist (1932–2020)
Alan Perlis
American computer scientist (1922–1990)
Peter Naur
Danish computer scientist (1928–2016) and Turing Award winner (2005); author of 'Programming as Theory Building' (1985); co-editor of the 1968 NATO Software Engineering Conference report
Maurice Wilkes
British computer scientist (1913–2010)
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
Shafrira Goldwasser
American computer scientist
Adi Shamir
Israeli cryptographer (born 1952)
Ivan Sutherland
American computer scientist and Internet pioneer
Bob Kahn
American Internet pioneer, computer scientist (born 1938)
Yann Le Cun
French computer scientist (born 1960)
Richard Hamming
American mathematician and information theorist (1915–1998)
Charles Bachman
American computer scientist (1924–2017)
Ole-Johan Dahl
Norwegian computer scientist (1931–2002)
Richard M. Karp
American theoretical computer scientist (b.1935)
Dana Scott
American mathematician and computer scientist
Juris Hartmanis
Latvian computer scientist (1928–2022)
Stephen Cook
American-Canadian computer scientist
Ron Rivest
American cryptographer
Alfred Aho
Canadian computer scientist
Kristen Nygaard
Computer scientist, Mathematician (1926-2002)
Whitfield Diffie
American cryptographer (born 1944)
Manuel Blum
Venezuelan computer scientist
Yoshua Bengio
Canadian computer scientist (born 1964)
Allen Newell
American cognitive scientist (1927–1992)
Fernando J. Corbató
American computer scientist (1926–2019)
Leonard Adleman
American computer scientist
Kenneth E. Iverson
Canadian computer scientist (1920–2004)
Michael O. Rabin
Israeli computer scientist
Judea Pearl
Israeli-American computer scientist (born 1936)
William Kahan
Canadian mathematician and computer scientist (born 1933)
Raj Reddy
Indian-American computer scientist
Martin Edward Hellman
American cryptologist (born 1945)
Avi Wigderson
Israeli mathematician and computer scientist
James H. Wilkinson
English mathematician (1919–1986)
Edwin Catmull
American computer scientist and former president of Pixar (born 1945)
Jim Gray
American computer scientist (1944–2007/2012)
Butler Lampson
American computer scientist (born 1943)
Amir Pnueli
Israeli computer scientist (1941–2009) researching temporal logic, model checking, and concurrent systems
Robert W. Floyd
American computer scientist (1936-2001)
Andrew Yao
computer scientist and computational theorist
Edward Feigenbaum
American computer scientist (born 1936)