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Carel S. Scholten
Carel S. Scholten was a Dutch computer engineer who co-built the ARRA computers and co-designed the Electrologica X1, host of the world's first ALGOL 60 compiler.
Chad Sanderson
Chad Sanderson is an American data-technology executive, CEO and co-founder of Gable (formerly of Convoy, Microsoft, Sephora, Subway, Oracle), author of the O'Reilly book Data Contracts, and founder of Data Quality Camp.
Charles Bachman
Charles Bachman (1924–2017) was an American computer scientist who created Integrated Data Store, the first commercial database management system, and won the 1973 A.M. Turing Award for it.
Charles L. Seitz
Charles L. Seitz, known as Chuck Seitz, is an American computer scientist who built the Cosmic Cube, the first multicomputer, at Caltech and co-founded the interconnect company Myricom in 1994.
Charles P. Thacker
Charles P. Thacker was an American computer scientist who led the hardware design of the Xerox Alto, the first modern personal computer, and co-invented Ethernet.
Chris Lattner
Chris Lattner is an American software engineer who created LLVM, Clang, and Swift at Apple, later co-authored MLIR and co-founded Modular, whose Mojo language Qualcomm acquired in 2026.
Christina Delimitrou
Christina Delimitrou is a Greek computer systems researcher and MIT associate professor known for applying machine learning to cloud resource management, who received a 2025 PECASE award.
Christopher Soghoian
Christopher Soghoian is a computer scientist and privacy researcher who exposed the government's StingRay surveillance and FBI impersonation of journalists, co-created Do Not Track, and advises Senator Ron Wyden.
Christos Faloutsos
Christos Faloutsos is a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University who works on data mining for graphs and streams, best known for the 1999 Internet power-law paper.
Constanze Kurz
Constanze Kurz, born 1974 in Berlin, is a German computer scientist and net activist who serves as volunteer spokesperson for the Chaos Computer Club and acts as technical expert to the Federal Constitutional Court.
Dain Sundstrom
Dain Sundstrom is an American software engineer, co-creator of Presto (2012, Facebook, with Traverso, Phillips, and Hwang), now Trino after the 2018 fork; he co-founded Starburst, was its CTO until 2025, and is a Trino BDFL and Trino Software Foundation board member.
Dan Linstedt
Dan Linstedt is the American data architect who invented the Data Vault data warehouse modeling method (hubs, links, satellites) in the 1990s, published it from 2002, created Data Vault 2.0, and co-founded Scalefree and DataVaultAlliance.
Daniela Oliveira
Daniela Oliveira is a computer scientist trained in Brazil and at UC Davis who won the 2012 PECASE award and now leads NSF's flagship academic cybersecurity funding program.
Danny Cohen
Danny Cohen (1937–2019) was an Israeli-born American computer scientist who built the first real-time visual flight simulator on a general-purpose computer, sent the first packet voice and video over the ARPANET in 1973, and coined "endianness."
David A. Patterson (American computer scientist)
David A. Patterson is an American computer scientist who led the RISC project at UC Berkeley, co-invented RAID storage, and shared the 2017 Turing Award with John Hennessy.
David B. Lomet
David B. Lomet is a database systems researcher and principal researcher at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.
David D. Clark
David D. Clark is an MIT computer scientist who served as Chief Protocol Architect for the Internet from 1981 to 1989 and chaired the Internet Activities Board.
David DeWitt
David DeWitt is an American computer scientist known for parallel database systems and benchmarking, a University of Wisconsin–Madison professor emeritus elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
David Gries
David Gries, born 1939, is an American computer scientist and Cornell professor emeritus who wrote the first compilers textbook and championed teaching programming as a mathematical discipline.
David Harel
David Harel is an Israeli computer scientist at the Weizmann Institute, known for inventing statecharts and serving as President of the Israel Academy of Sciences since 2021.
David Karger
David R. Karger is an American computer scientist and MIT professor since 1995, known for inventing consistent hashing, co-authoring the Chord distributed hash table, and randomized min-cut algorithms.
David L. Mills
David L. Mills (1938–2024) was an American computer scientist who created the Network Time Protocol, which synchronizes the clocks of networked computers across the internet.
David Loveall
David Loveall II is an American digital-forensics scientist with the FBI since 2000, a PECASE recipient who serves as senior advisor on digital forensics at Quantico.
David Patterson (computer scientist)
David Andrew Patterson is an American computer scientist who led the Berkeley RISC project, co-invented RAID, and shared the 2017 Turing Award with John Hennessy.
Dawn Song
Dawn Song is an American computer scientist, a professor at UC Berkeley and 2010 MacArthur Fellow, known for work in computer security, AI safety, and agentic AI, who founded Oasis Labs and Menlo Security.
Debasis Mitra
Debasis Mitra is an electrical engineer known for research on communication networks, with a 44-year Bell Labs career and election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.
Deborah Estrin
Deborah Estrin, born 1959, is a computer scientist and Cornell Tech professor known for directed diffusion in wireless sensor networks, mobile health, and a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship.
Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie (1941–2011) was an American computer scientist at Bell Labs who created the C programming language and co-created Unix with Ken Thompson, winning the 1983 Turing Award.
Dina Katabi
Dina Katabi is a Syrian-born computer scientist and electrical engineer at MIT known for wireless networking research and for contactless health sensing using radio signals and AI.
Don Towsley (computer scientist)
Don Towsley is a computer scientist and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for pioneering network tomography and fluid models of large networks and for work on quantum networking.