1. Charles Bachman (1924)

American Computer Scientist

Computer scientist who received an ACM Turing Award in 1973 for his contributions in database technology. He is best known for his early work with database management systems. 

2. Alan Kotok (1941)

American Computer Scientist

Computer pioneer who worked on the earliest video games and created the joystick.

3. Anita Borg (1949)

American Computer Scientist

Known for her work in the field of computer science, she encouraged the careers of other female computer scientists by founding the Institute for Women and Technology and by starting...

4. Bill Joy (1954)

American Computer Scientist

Notable as the co-founder of the Sun Microsystems computer, software, and IT company, he is also famous as a developer of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix operating system and...

5. Bill Kennedy (computer scientist) (Unknow)

American Computer Scientist

P. Bill Kennedy born 1951 is the former editor-in-chief of A+ Publishing including MacComputing A+ and PC Games magazines. Kennedy was an early participant in Real World Interface along with...

6. Alexander Amini (1995)

American Computer Scientist

Alexander Amini is an American scientist from Dublin Ireland currently studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in America.

7. Thelma Estrin (1924)

American Computer Scientist

Thelma Estrin Professor Emerita Department of Computer Science University of California at Los Angeles is a computer scientist and engineer who has done pioneering work in the fields of expert...

8. Fernando J. Corbató (1926)

American Computer Scientist

José Corby Corbató is a prominent American computer scientist notable as a pioneer in the development of time-sharing operating systems. Amongst many awards he received the Turing Award in 1990...

9. Carver Mead (1934)

American Computer Scientist

Carver Andress Mead is a US computer scientist. He currently holds the position of Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of...

10. George Sadowsky (1936)

American Computer Scientist

George Sadowsky is an American computer scientist who has worked in a number of entities related to promotion of the Internet worldwide. He is well-known all over the world through...

11. Irwin Sobel (1940)

American Computer Scientist

Irwin Sobel is a scientist and researcher in digital image processing.

12. Barbara Simons (Unknow)

American Computer Scientist

Barbara Simons is a computer scientist and past president of the Association for Computing Machinery. She is founder and former Chair of USACM the ACM U. S. Public Policy Committee....

13. Harry Shum (1982)

American Computer Scientist

Heung-Yeung Harry Shum is Executive Vice President Technology & Research at Microsoft. He is known for his research on computer vision and computer graphics and for the development of web...

14. Daniel Sleator (1953)

American Computer Scientist

Daniel Dominic Kaplan Sleator is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh United States. In 1999 he won the ACM Paris Kanellakis Award for the splay tree...

15. Fred B. Schneider (1953)

American Computer Scientist

Barry Schneider is an American computer scientist based at Cornell University New York USA where he is the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Computer Science. He has published extensively. His...

16. Ronald Fagin (1945)

American Computer Scientist

Ronald Fagin is an American computer scientist and IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He is best known for his pioneering work in database theory finite model theory...

17. Bill Inmon (1945)

American Computer Scientist

H. Inmon is an American computer scientist recognized by many as the father of the data warehouse. Bill Inmon wrote the first book held the first conference wrote the first...

18. Terry Winograd (1946)

American Computer Scientist

Terry Allen Winograd is an American professor of computer science at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group. He is known within the philosophy of mind and...

19. Jaime Carbonell (1953)

American Computer Scientist

Jaime Guillermo Carbonell is a computer scientist who has made seminal contributions to the development of natural language processing tools and technologies. His extensive research in machine translation has resulted...

20. W. David Sincoskie (1954)

American Computer Scientist

David Dave Sincoskie was an American computer engineer. Sincoskie installed the first ethernet local area network at Bellcore and helped invent voice over IP technology. Sincoskie authored the first local...

21. Guy L. Steele, Jr. (1954)

American Computer Scientist

Guy Lewis Steele Jr. /ˈstiːl/ also known as The Great Quux and GLS /ˈɡlɪs/ is an American computer scientist who has played an important role in designing and documenting several...

22. Boleslaw Szymanski (1950)

American Computer Scientist

Boleslaw Karl Szymanski is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Founding Head of the Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He's known for...

23. E. Allen Emerson (1954)

American Computer Scientist

Ernest Allen Emerson is a computer scientist and endowed professor at the University of Texas Austin USA. He won the 2007 A. M. Turing Award along with Edmund M.

24. John E. Laird (1954)

American Computer Scientist

John E. Laird is a computer scientist who with Paul Rosenbloom and Allen Newell created the Soar cognitive architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. Laird is a Professor of the Computer...

25. David E. Shaw (1951)

American Computer Scientist

David Elliot Shaw is an American computer scientist and computational biochemist who founded D. E. Shaw & Co. a hedge fund company which was once described by Fortune magazine as...

26. Dana S. Nau (Unknow)

American Computer Scientist

Dana S. Nau is a Professor of Computer Science and Systems Research at the University of Maryland College Park where he has done research in automated planning and scheduling game...

27. Raj Jain (1951)

American Computer Scientist

Raj Jain is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis Missouri.

28. Darrell Long (1962)

American Computer Scientist

Darrell Don Earl Long is an American computer scientist the Kumar Malavalli Endowed Professor of Storage Systems Research and Professor of Computer Science at the University of California Santa Cruz....

29. David P. Reed (1952)

American Computer Scientist

David Patrick Reed is an American computer scientist educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology known for a number of significant contributions to computer networking and wireless communications networks. He...

30. Larry Coon (1962)

American Computer Scientist

Larry Coon is a computer scientist and Information Technology Director with University of California Irvine but is known throughout the NBA as an expert of the NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement....

31. Mark Weiser (1952)

American Computer Scientist

Mark D. Weiser was a chief scientist at Xerox PARC in the United States. Weiser is widely considered to be the father of ubiquitous computing a term he coined in...

32. Michael Fellows (1952)

American Computer Scientist

Michael Ralph Fellows is an American computer scientist and Professor at Charles Darwin University Australia and Director of the Parameterized Complexity Research Unit.

33. Mark T. Maybury (1964)

American Computer Scientist

Mark Thomas Maybury PhD is an American computer scientist. He is Chief Scientist of the United States Air Force Washington D. C.. He serves as chief scientific adviser to the...

34. Tracy Camp (1964)

American Computer Scientist

Tracy Kay Camp is an American Computer Scientist noted for her research on wireless networking. She is also noted for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. She is currently...

35. Jeffrey Vitter (1955)

American Computer Scientist

Jeffrey Scott Vitter is provost and executive vice chancellor and Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence Kansas. As provost Dr. Vitter is the chief...

36. Tom Lane (computer scientist) (1955)

American Computer Scientist

Thomas G. Lane is a computer scientist dedicated to open source software.

37. Peyman Faratin (1965)

American Computer Scientist

Peyman Faratin is an Iranian/American computer scientist and the founder of Robust Links an Internet company building algorithms for creating and processing a knowledge graph.

38. Ralph Johnson (computer scientist) (1955)

American Computer Scientist

same name see Ralph Johnson Ralph E. Johnson is a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a co-author...

39. Cynbe ru Taren (1956)

American Computer Scientist

Jeffrey Prothero is an American computer programmer. He is the author of Citadel arguably the first virtual world system and one of the longest-running open source projects; the Digital Anatomist...

40. Thomas W. Reps (1956)

American Computer Scientist

Thomas W. Reps is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to automatic program analysis. Dr. Reps is Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Sciences Department of the...

41. Jim Ellis (computing) (1956)

American Computer Scientist

James Tice Ellis was a computer scientist best known as the co-creator of Usenet along with Tom Truscott. Born in Nashville Tennessee Ellis grew up in Orlando Florida. Before developing...

42. Yoav Shoham (1956)

American Computer Scientist

Yoav Shoham is a computer scientist at Stanford University. He received his Ph. D. at Yale University in 1987. Shoham co-teaches a popular game theory course on Coursera. org along...

43. Philip Wadler (1956)

American Computer Scientist

Philip Wadler is a computer scientist known for his contributions to programming language design and type theory. In particular he has contributed to the theory behind functional programming and the...

44. Daniel S. Weld (1960)

American Computer Scientist

Daniel Sabey Dan Weld is the Thomas J. Cable/WRF Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington where he does research in automated planning and scheduling software...

45. Ashwin Ram (1960)

American Computer Scientist

Ashwin Ram is an Indian-American computer scientist. Known for serving as Chief Innovation Officer at PARC he has also published two books and over 100 scientific articles and helped start...

46. Steven Skiena (1961)

American Computer Scientist

Steven Sol Skiena is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. He is a co-founder and the Chief Science Officer of General Sentiment a social media...

47. Ed Seidel (1957)

American Computer Scientist

Edward Seidel is director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications a Founder Professor in the Department of Physics and a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University...

48. Juan E. Gilbert (1969)

American Computer Scientist

Juan E. Gilbert is a prominent American computer scientist researcher inventor and educator. A staunch advocate of diversity in the computing sciences Gilbert's successful efforts to increase the number of...

49. Jeffrey Shallit (1957)

American Computer Scientist

Jeffrey Outlaw Shallit is a computer scientist number theorist a noted advocate for civil liberties on the Internet and a noted critic of intelligent design. He is married to Anna...

50. John Gage (Unknow)

American Computer Scientist

John Burdette Gage was the 5th employee of Sun Microsystems where he is credited with creating the phrase the network is the computer. He served as Chief Researcher and Vice...