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Adrian Chavez
Adrian Chavez is an American computer scientist at Sandia National Laboratories who works on cybersecurity for the power grid and received a PECASE award from President Obama.
Alan Kay
Alan Curtis Kay, born 1940 in Springfield, Massachusetts, is an American computer scientist who created Smalltalk at Xerox PARC, coined the term object-oriented programming, and won the 2003 Turing Award.
Alan Perlis
Alan Perlis (1922–1990) was an American computer scientist who received the first Turing Award in 1966, co-designed ALGOL, and founded Carnegie Mellon's computer science department.
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, born in Milan in 1947, is an Italian-American engineer and computer scientist at UC Berkeley, a founder of electronic design automation who co-founded Cadence and Synopsys.
Alexey Milovidov
Alexey Milovidov (Алексей Миловидов) is the Russian engineer who created ClickHouse at Yandex Metrica, open-sourced it in 2016, and co-founded ClickHouse, Inc. in 2021, serving as its CTO from Amsterdam.
Alfred Aho
Alfred Aho is a Canadian-born computer scientist at Columbia University known for the Aho-Corasick algorithm, the AWK programming language, influential compiler textbooks, and the 2020 Turing Award.
Ali Ghodsi
Ali Ghodsi, Iranian-born Swedish computer scientist, co-founder and CEO of Databricks since 2016, co-creator of Apache Spark, UC Berkeley adjunct professor, PhD from KTH, net worth about $7.6 billion.
Alvin Cheung
Alvin Cheung is a computer scientist and professor at UC Berkeley who works on database systems and programming languages; he developed verified lifting and received a 2019 PECASE award.
Amit Singhal
Amit Singhal (Amitabh Kumar Singhal) is an Indian-American computer scientist who led the technical development of Google Search from 2000 until his retirement in 2016.
Anant Agarwal
Anant Agarwal is an MIT computer architect and serial entrepreneur who designed the Raw multicore chip, founded Tilera, and led edX from 2012 until its 2021 sale.
Andrew Donald Booth
Andrew Donald Booth was a British computer scientist who devised the Booth multiplication algorithm, still used in processors, and built early computers at Birkbeck College.
Anita K. Jones
Anita K. Jones is an American computer scientist and University Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia, known for work on operating systems and computer security.
Ashok Agrawala
Ashok Agrawala is a computer scientist who joined the University of Maryland in 1971 and worked on distributed systems, real-time computing, and indoor location, retiring in 2026.
Auerbach Consultants
Auerbach Consultants was a computer consulting firm founded in 1976 by Isaac L. Auerbach, an American computer pioneer who led it until his death in 1992.
Avi Rubin
Avi Rubin (Aviel D. Rubin) is a computer security expert and professor emeritus at Johns Hopkins University, known for exposing vulnerabilities in Diebold electronic voting machines in 2003.
Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov, born Barbara Jane Huberman in 1939, is an American computer scientist at MIT who won the 2009 Turing Award for contributions to programming language and system design.
Barr Moses
Barr Moses, co-founder and CEO of Monte Carlo (founded 2019 with Lior Gavish), credited with coining data observability and data downtime; formerly Israeli Air Force data unit commander, Bain consultant, and Gainsight VP; Stanford B.Sc. in Mathematical and Computational Science.
Barry Boehm
Barry Boehm (1935–2022) was an American software engineer who created the COCOMO cost-estimation model and the spiral model, spending most of his career in aerospace software research.
Barry Devlin
Barry A. Devlin, Irish IBM engineer who with Paul Murphy defined the first data warehouse architecture and coined business data warehouse in a 1988 IBM Systems Journal paper; later founded 9sight Consulting.
Bernardo A. Huberman
Bernardo A. Huberman is an Argentine-born physicist and complex-systems researcher who originated the ecology of computation and wrote The Laws of the Web (MIT Press, 2001).
Bill Inmon
Bill Inmon (William H. Inmon), American computer scientist called the Father of Data Warehousing; wrote Building the Data Warehouse (1992), defined the four-property data warehouse, created the Corporate Information Factory, founded Prism Solutions, and later developed DW 2.0 and textual disambiguation.
Bill Joy
Bill Joy (William Nelson Joy), born 1954, is an American computer scientist who built BSD UNIX and vi at Berkeley, then co-founded Sun Microsystems, contributing to SPARC and Java.
Bill Thies
Bill Thies is an American computer scientist known for frugal technologies for global health and development, awarded a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship and formerly at Microsoft Research.
Bjarne Stroustrup
Bjarne Stroustrup, born in 1950 in Århus, Denmark, is a Danish computer scientist who created C++ at AT&T Bell Labs in 1979 and led its standardization.
Bob Kahn
Bob Kahn, born in Brooklyn in 1938, is an American electrical engineer who co-invented TCP/IP with Vinton Cerf, founded CNRI, and won the 2004 Turing Award.
Boris D. Lubachevsky
Boris D. Lubachevsky was a Soviet-trained computer scientist at AT&T Bell Labs known for bounded-lag synchronization in parallel discrete-event simulation and the Lubachevsky–Stillinger algorithm for dense random particle packings.
Brian Kernighan
Brian Kernighan, born 1942, is a Canadian computer scientist who spent 30 years at Bell Labs working on Unix, coined the name "Unix," and co-authored The C Programming Language.
Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier, born 1963, is an American cryptographer and computer security specialist who designed the Blowfish and Twofish ciphers, wrote Applied Cryptography, and writes the blog Schneier on Security.
Butler Lampson
Butler Lampson is an American computer scientist, a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and adjunct professor at MIT, who won the 1992 Turing Award for distributed personal computing.
C. Mohan
C. Mohan, full name Chandrasekaran Mohan, is a database researcher best known for inventing the ARIES recovery algorithms and the Presumed Abort commit protocol during a 38.5-year career at IBM.