List Of Computing People

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This is a list of people who are important or notable in the field of computing, but who are not primarily computer scientists or programmers.


A

  • Alfred Aho, co-developer of the AWK
  • Leonard Adleman, encryption (RSA)
  • Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape Communications Corporation

B

  • Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web
  • Stephen Bourne, developer of the Bourne shell

C

  • John Carmack, realtime computer game graphics, id Software
  • Noam Chomsky, linguist, language theorist (Chomsky hierarchy) and social critic

D

  • Theo de Raadt, founder of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects

E

  • J. Presper Eckert, ENIAC
  • Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
  • Marc Ewing, creator of Red Hat Linux

F

G

  • Bill Gates, co-founder and Chairman of Microsoft
  • James Gosling, "father" of the Java programming language

H

  • Grace Hopper, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers.

I

  • Jonathan Ive, Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple

J

  • Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple
  • Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, BSD

K

  • Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, C programming language
  • Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, TeX

L

  • Rasmus Lerdorf, creator of the PHP Scripting Language
  • Lawrence Lessig, professor of law and founder of the Creative Commons
  • Ada Lovelace

M

  • John William Mauchly, ENIAC
  • John McCarthy, LISP programming language
  • Bob Miner, co-founder of Oracle Corporation
  • Marvin Minsky, AI luminary
  • Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel, Moore's Law
  • Elon Musk, co-founder of PayPal, Tesla, Inc, SpaceX,

N

  • Roger Needham
  • John von Neumann, theoretical computer science
  • Robert Noyce, co-founder of Intel and the founder of integrated circuit

P

  • Sir John Anthony Pople, pioneer in computational chemistry
  • Jon Postel, Internet pioneer, founder of IANA

Q

R

  • Eric Raymond, Open Source movement luminary
  • Dennis Ritchie, Unix operating system and C programming language
  • Ron Rivest, encryption (RSA)
  • Guido van Rossum, Python (programming language) Benevolent Dictator For Life

S

  • Adi Shamir, encryption (RSA)
  • Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical
  • Richard Stallman, founder of GNU
  • Olaf Storaasli, NASA Finite element machine
  • Bjarne Stroustrup, founder of C++

T

  • Ken Thompson, Unix and Plan 9 operating systems
  • Linus Torvalds, Linux
  • Alan Turing, British mathematician and cryptographer

U

V

W

  • Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum, computer critic
  • Kevin Warwick, cyborg scientist, implant self-experimenter
  • Niklaus Wirth, developed Pascal
  • Peter J. Weinberger, co-developer of the AWK language
  • Sophie Wilson, designer of the ARM instruction set
  • Stephen Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Research, physicist, software developer, mathematician
  • Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple; creator of the Apple I and Apple II computers

X

Y

Z

  • Jill Zimmerman, James M. Beall Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Goucher College
  • Konrad Zuse, built one of the first computers
  • Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook

See also

  • List of programmers
  • List of computer scientists
  • List of pioneers in computer science
  • List of Russian IT developers



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