1. Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887)

Computer Scientist

Gustav Ludwig Hertz is a famous Computer Scientist, who was born on July 22, 1887 in Germany. German physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1925 for his experiments on...

2. Reynold B. Johnson (1906)

Computer Scientist

Reynold B. Johnson is a famous Computer Scientist, who was born on July 16, 1906 in United States. Inventor and computer pioneer who invented the first computer hard disk drive...

3. John Backus (1924)

Computer Scientist

American computer scientist who helped develop Fortran, one of the first computer programming languages, for which he received the National Medal of Science in 1975. He also did important research...

4. Juris Hartmanis (1928)

Computer Scientist

A Latvian computer scientist and computational theorist who received the 1993 ACM Turing Award. He developed many principles of computational complexity theory while working at the General Electric Research Laboratory.

5. Stephen Cook (1939)

Computer Scientist

American computer scientist and mathematician who has contributed to the fields of complexity theory and proof complexity.

6. Dennis Ritchie (1941)

Computer Scientist

Creator of the 'C' programming language and the Unix operating system, who is credited with helping to usher in the modern digital era. He won the Turing Award from the...

7. Edwin Catmull (1945)

Computer Scientist

American computer scientist who is known as the president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios. He has contributed to many developments in computer science.

8. J. Presper Eckert (1919)

Computer Scientist

J. Presper Eckert is a famous Computer Scientist, who was born on April 9, 1919 in United States. Co-designer, with John. W. Mauchly, of the ENIAC, of the world’s first...

9. Gilad Lotan (1981)

Computer Scientist

Data scientist who rose to fame after getting hired to head up BuzzFeed data science department. He's a sought-after data expert who's worked at Microsoft and Betaworks.

10. Jon Bentley (1953)

Computer Scientist

Jon Bentley is a famous Computer Scientist, who was born on February 20, 1953 in United States. Computer scientist who invented the dimensional k-d tree, which is a space-partitioning data...

11. Mihai Patrascu (1982)

Computer Scientist

Romanian computer scientist who worked for AT&T Labs and won many medals at the International Olympiad in Informatics.

12. Ahto Buldas (1967)

Computer Scientist

An Estonian computer scientist who became the Chair of Information Security at Tallinn University of Technology. He invented the Keyless Signature Infrastructure, a digital timestamping system for electronic data.

13. Jim Gray (1944)

Computer Scientist

Jim Gray is a famous Computer Scientist, who was born on January 12, 1944 in United States. American computer scientist who was a recipient of the Turing Award in 1998...

14. Emo Welzl (1958)

Computer Scientist

Emmerich Welzl is a computer scientist known for his research in computational geometry. He is a professor in the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

15. Muffy Calder (1958)

Computer Scientist

Professor Muffy Calder OBE FRSE is a Scottish computer scientist Professor of Formal Methods in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow and Chief Scientific Advisor to...

16. Andrew Targowski (1937)

Computer Scientist

Andrew Stanislaw Targowski is a Polish-American computer scientist specializing in enterprise computing societal computing information technology impact upon civilization information theory wisdom theory and civilization theory.

17. Ole-Johan Dahl (1931)

Computer Scientist

Ole-Johan Dahl was a Norwegian computer scientist and is considered to be one of the fathers of Simula and object-oriented programming along with Kristen Nygaard.

18. Frances E. Allen (1932)

Computer Scientist

American nun see Frances Allen. Frances Elizabeth Fran Allen is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers code...

19. Zhou Chaochen (1937)

Computer Scientist

Zhou Chaochen is a Chinese computer scientist. Zhou Chaochen is a professor from Beijing China.

20. Fred W. Glover (1937)

Computer Scientist

. Glover is a professor of computer science and applied mathematics at the University of Colorado and the chief technology officer at OptTek Systems. He is widely known for his...

21. R. C. T. Lee (Unknow)

Computer Scientist

R. C. T. Lee also known as Richard C. T. Lee received his B. Sc. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering of National Taiwan University and Ph. D. degree...

22. Alan Kay (1940)

Computer Scientist

Alan Curtis Kay is an American computer scientist. He has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences the National Academy of Engineering and the Royal...

23. Alfred Aho (1941)

Computer Scientist

Alfred Vaino Aho is a Canadian computer scientist best known for his work on programming languages compilers and related algorithms and his textbooks on the art and science of computer...

24. Charles E. Leiserson (1953)

Computer Scientist

Charles Eric Leiserson is a computer scientist specializing in the theory of parallel computing and distributed computing and particularly practical applications thereof; as part of this effort he developed the...

25. Gordon Plotkin (1946)

Computer Scientist

Gordon David Plotkin FRS FRSE is a theoretical Computer Scientist in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Plotkin is probably best known for his introduction of structural...

26. Robert Tarjan (1948)

Computer Scientist

Robert Endre Tarjan is an American computer scientist. He is the discoverer of several graph algorithms including Tarjan's off-line least common ancestors algorithm and co-inventor of both splay trees and...

27. Kaisa Sere (Unknow)

Computer Scientist

Kaisa Sere was a Finnish computer scientist specialising in research into formal methods. Kaisa Sere was born in Kokkola Finland. She received an MSc in mathematics in 1979 and a...

28. Nikolaos Bourbakis (Unknow)

Computer Scientist

Nikolaos G. Bourbakis is a computer scientist known for his work in image processing. As of 2011 he is Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Director...

29. Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (1954)

Computer Scientist

Dr Ahmed K. Elmagarmid is a computer scientist academic and executive. He is currently the Executive Director of the Qatar Computing Research Institute in Doha Qatar. Up to 2010 he...

30. Harald Tveit Alvestrand (1959)

Computer Scientist

Harald Tveit Alvestrand is a Norwegian computer scientist. He was the chairman of the Internet Engineering Task Force from 2001 until 2005.

31. Tom M. Mitchell (1951)

Computer Scientist

Tom Michael Mitchell is an American computer scientist and E. Fredkin University Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently the Chair of Machine Learning Department at CMU. Mitchell...

32. Terry Bollinger (1955)

Computer Scientist

Terry Benton Bollinger is an American computer scientist who works at the MITRE Corporation. In 2003 he wrote an influential report for the U. S. Department of Defense (U. S.

33. Nick Szabo (1964)

Computer Scientist

34. Gregory Abowd (1964)

Computer Scientist

Gregory Dominic Abowd is a computer scientist best known for his work in ubiquitous computing software engineering and technologies for autism. He is a distinguished professor at the Georgia Institute...

35. Richard T. Snodgrass (1955)

Computer Scientist

Richard Thomas Snodgrass is an American computer scientist and writer currently employed as a professor at the University of Arizona. He is best known for his work on temporal databases...

36. Susanne Albers (1965)

Computer Scientist

Susanne Albers is a German theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

37. Danny Hillis (1956)

Computer Scientist

Daniel Danny Hillis is an American inventor scientist engineer entrepreneur and author. He co-founded Thinking Machines Corporation a company that developed the Connection Machine a parallel supercomputer designed by Hillis...

38. Daphne Koller (1968)

Computer Scientist

Daphne Koller is an Israeli-American Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Fellowship recipient. She's also one of the founders of Coursera an online...

39. Cristopher Moore (1968)

Computer Scientist

Cristopher David Moore known as Cris Moore is an American computer scientist mathematician and physicist. He is resident faculty at the Santa Fe Institute and was formerly a full professor...

40. Subhash Suri (1960)

Computer Scientist

Subhash Suri is an Indian-American computer scientist a professor at the University of California Santa Barbara. He is known for his research in computational geometry computer networks and algorithmic game...

41. Rob S. Miles (1957)

Computer Scientist

Rob Miles is a Microsoft MVP and also a lecturer in Programming and Software Engineering at the University of Hull. Rob has given various speeches worldwide on technologies including C...

42. Steve Reeves (computer scientist) (1957)

Computer Scientist

Prof. Steve Reeves is a computer scientist based at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He is the Associate Dean and the Programme Co-ordinator of Software Engineering. He has...

43. Albrecht Schmidt (computer scientist) (1970)

Computer Scientist

Albrecht Schmidt is a computer scientist best known for his work in ubiquitous computing pervasive computing and the tangible user interface. He is a professor at University of Stuttgart where...

44. Santosh Vempala (1971)

Computer Scientist

Santosh Vempala is a prominent computer scientist. He is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

45. Judea Pearl (1936)

Computer Scientist

Judea Pearl is an Israeli-born American computer scientist and philosopher best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks. He is also credited...

46. Christos Papadimitriou (1949)

Computer Scientist

Christos Harilaos Papadimitriou is a Greek Computer Scientist and Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California Berkeley United States.

47. Marcus Hutter (1967)

Computer Scientist

Marcus Hutter is a German computer scientist and professor at the Australian National University. Hutter was born and educated in Munich where he studied physics and computer science at the...

48. Zhiming Liu (computer scientist) (1961)

Computer Scientist

Zhiming Liu is a computer scientist. He studied mathematics in Luoyang Henan Province in China and obtained his first degree in 1982. He holds a master degree in Computer Science...

49. Avrim Blum (1966)

Computer Scientist

Avrim Blum is a prominent computer scientist who in 2007 was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for contributions to learning theory and algorithms.

50. Manindra Agrawal (1966)

Computer Scientist

Manindra Agrawal is a professor at the department of computer science and engineering and the Dean of Faculty Affairs at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He was also the...