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Hannes Mühleisen
Hannes Mühleisen is the German-born computer scientist who co-created DuckDB with Mark Raasveldt at CWI Amsterdam and co-founded DuckLabs (formerly DuckDB Labs), which joined AWS in 2026.
Héctor García-Molina
Héctor García-Molina (1953–2019) was a Mexican-born computer scientist, a Stanford professor known for distributed databases, replicated data, and the Stanford Digital Libraries Project that produced Google.
Henry Hoffmann
Henry Hoffmann, often called Hank Hoffmann, is an American computer scientist at the University of Chicago known for research on self-aware and adaptive computing systems and for receiving a PECASE award.
Herman Goldstine
Herman Goldstine (1913–2004) was an American mathematician who directed the ENIAC project at the University of Pennsylvania, collaborated with von Neumann, and became an IBM Fellow.
Ian Murdock
Ian Murdock (Ian Ashley Murdock) was an American software engineer who founded the Debian Project, a non-commercial Linux distribution, in 1993 at Purdue University, leading it until 1996.
Ike Nassi
Ike Nassi is an American computer scientist and serial entrepreneur who co-created the Nassi–Shneiderman diagram, a 1973 structured alternative to the flowchart, and later held senior software roles at Apple.
Ikuo Takeuchi
Ikuo Takeuchi (竹内 郁雄, born 1946) is a Japanese computer scientist known for the Takeuchi function behind the Lisp benchmark "Tak", the multi-paradigm language TAO, and the ELIS Lisp machine.
Ion Stoica
Ion Stoica is a Romanian-born computer scientist and professor at UC Berkeley who co-founded Databricks, Anyscale, and Conviva and is known for the Chord peer-to-peer lookup protocol.
Irene Greif
Irene Greif is an American computer scientist who founded the field of computer-supported cooperative work and was the first woman to earn a computer science PhD at MIT.
J. C. R. Licklider
J. C. R. Licklider (1915–1990) was an American psychologist and computer scientist whose 1960 paper "Man-Computer Symbiosis" and ARPA leadership shaped interactive computing and networking.
Jack Dennis
Jack Bonnell Dennis (1931–2026) was an MIT computer science professor known for the Multics operating system and pioneering dataflow models of computation, winning the Eckert-Mauchly Award.
Jack Dongarra
Jack Dongarra, born in 1950, is an American computer scientist whose numerical libraries and the TOP500 supercomputer benchmark shaped high-performance computing, earning him the 2021 Turing Award.
Jacques Nadeau
Jacques Nadeau is an American open source software engineer: co-founder and CTO of Dremio, co-founder and CEO of Sundeck, co-creator and founding PMC chair of Apache Arrow, co-creator of Substrait, and founding PMC chair of Apache Drill.
James Demmel
James Demmel is an American computer scientist and mathematician at UC Berkeley, a career numerical linear algebra researcher known for the LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, and SuperLU libraries and for communication-avoiding algorithms.
James Evans Robertson
James Evans Robertson (1924–1993) was an American computer scientist at the University of Illinois, known for the SRT division method and ORDVAC and ILLIAC I circuitry.
James Gosling
James Gosling is a Canadian computer scientist, born in 1955, best known as the creator of the Java programming language, which he designed at Sun Microsystems.
James R. Gosler
James R. Gosler is an American cybersecurity scientist, Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and first Director of the CIA's Clandestine Information Technology Office.
Jamie Zawinski
Jamie Zawinski, known online as jwz, is an American programmer who created Lucid Emacs, wrote the Unix Netscape Navigator, ran mozilla.org, and owns the DNA Lounge nightclub.
Jaswinder P. Singh
Jaswinder P. Singh, also known as Jaswinder Pal Singh, is an American computer scientist at Princeton University who works on parallel computing and computational biology.
Jay Kreps
Jay Kreps (born about 1980), American software engineer; co-creator of Apache Kafka, Voldemort, and Samza at LinkedIn; co-founder and longtime CEO of Confluent, later an Anthropic director; Confluent was acquired by IBM.
Jayadev Misra
Jayadev Misra (born 1947) is an Indian-born American computer scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, known for the UNITY formalism and the Orc language.
Jeff Dean
Jeff Dean is an American computer scientist who joined Google in 1999, co-designed MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, and TensorFlow, co-founded Google Brain, and left in 2026 to start a company.
Jeff Hammerbacher
Jeff Hammerbacher is an American data scientist and entrepreneur who founded Facebook's Data team (2006–2008), co-founded Cloudera, coined 'data scientist' with DJ Patil, and moved into biomedicine via Hammer Lab and Related Sciences.
Jeffrey P. Buzen
Jeffrey P. Buzen is a computer scientist whose 1971 Harvard thesis produced Buzen's algorithm and the central server model, and who co-founded BGS Systems in 1975.
Jennifer L. Welch
Jennifer Lundelius Welch is an American computer scientist known for research on distributed computing theory, and co-author of the widely used textbook Distributed Computing: Fundamentals, Simulations and Advanced Topics.
Jennifer Rexford
Jennifer Rexford is an American computer scientist known for her work on BGP routing and software-defined networking, and has been Princeton University's provost since March 2023 after chairing its computer science department.
Jeremiah Lowin
Jeremiah Lowin is the American founder and CEO of Prefect, the workflow orchestration company, and creator of FastMCP, the Python framework for building Model Context Protocol servers. Former hedge fund risk manager, early Apache Airflow PMC member, Prefect is acquiring Dagster.
Jerry Saltzer
Jerry Saltzer, born Jerome Howard Saltzer in 1939, is an American computer scientist who spent his career at MIT, known for Multics security, the Saltzer–Schroeder principles, and the end-to-end argument.
Jim Gray
Jim Gray, born James Nicholas Gray, was an American computer scientist whose database transaction work underlies modern e-commerce; he received the 1998 Turing Award and was lost at sea in 2007.
Jim Kurose
Jim Kurose is an American computer scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst known for network protocol research and the textbook Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach.